Creativity is Life
Inspiration sometimes comes at the most inopportune moments.
Why does creativity behave this way?
Ideas come and go. Sometimes, they flit by like butterflies. Sometimes, they come at us like a firehose. At other times, it’s crickets. We wonder where the muse has gone. How do we seize the moments when she speaks? How do we follow an idea until it manifests in the real world?
Living a life of creativity starts with asking the question: what do we want? Do we want regularity and certainty at all costs? If so, we may be sacrificing our ability to be genuinely creative.
The creative life is an acceptance of uncertainty, an embrace of inconvenience, a wakefulness to the unexpected, and an appreciation of all the little things we usually take for granted. In short, creativity is the ability to notice the moment. When we become present, we enter into the space where creativity can happen.
Creativity is an ongoing conversation—a conversation with self, a conversation with your subject, a conversation with truth, and a conversation with others.
Creativity is work—the good kind that makes you feel productive and alive. It doesn’t take time as much as it is a state of flow in which you forget about time.
This year’s Creativity Workshop was a huge success. We got to talk about ways to help us be present, to be in the moment, to feel and describe the world with all of our senses as a way to bring us back to ourselves. We are already looking forward for the next one!
