What creative idea would you start right now if you dared?
Creativity shifts us forward in our life like nothing else we do. It is the essence of who we are and the form through which we express that essence… a poem, a building, a medical device. Or a blog!
Let’s face it. Life has moments where all we see on the horizon is a big black cloud with no sun or blue sky anywhere to be seen. We can create drama or we ease through those moments by looking into the heart of the cloud for the jewel hidden inside. The cloud is what happens to us. The jewel is the act of creating because in that act we are expressing who we really are.
Artists and poets and writers and artisans and crafts people have known for eons that the act of creation is profound and sometimes even life-saving. (I have personal experience on that.. stay tuned!)
So right here and now I want to dispel the idea that only artists are creative. Who started that idea anyway?
We create every day and it takes many forms both large and small, both short term and long term. How about an architect who envisions a beautiful building and then creates it? How about someone whose dinner table is as beautiful to look at as it is to eat?
It’s a way of thinking and being. It’s how we live while we travel the distance from one point to another or one day in our life to another. And the most direct route is not always the most rewarding.
When I was in elementary school I used to consistently get a D in art. I couldn’t reproduce a tree that looked like a tree, or people that didn’t look like stick people. But I had an ear for music that surprised people as early as when I was two or three. I might not have been a Mozart but it was clearly a gift.
But here’s the darndest thing. It was the D I got in art that had more impact on me. Where did we get the idea that it was okay to rate someone else’s creative endeavor? Wow, if that ever changed, a whole lot of newspaper reviewers and arts critics would be out of a job!
So this blog is going to be about sharing the many ways that unique individual essence is creatively expressed.
Creativity Shifts……
What creative idea would you start right now if you dared?
