Cancer
A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it.
Gabriel García Márquez
The project that started with such excitement carries more than you planned when you began it. What looked like a simple creative problem has revealed the full scope of what you were actually trying to build, and now you can feel the true size of the commitment. This is not failure, though it might feel like it when you measure the gap between where you are and where you thought you would be by now. The stalling is not resistance to the work but recognition of what the work actually requires. You are not behind schedule. You are finally seeing the real schedule.