I started using my hand to paint so then I decided to add some purpose and intention (with help from my friends)
My creative life has been ebbing lately. I’ve been consistently drawing back as other tasks and chores fill my hands not with a pencil but with materials to move and far too much “other stuff” to even begin creating “in a real way” or so my mind wants me to believe.
A pencil carrier of sharpies found its way into my hands today which then found its way into my car which then found its way into my backpack which then found its way to being a real possibility for the rest of my day.
Really?
A possibility?
My workspace sometimes gets messy quickly. I'm working on systems to make sure it gets picked up... somewhat quickly, too. :-)
I’ve been buried under home improvements and my creative time has been limited to an hour or so a day which is mostly spent on keeping up with my “work-y” creativity - my blog and my social media and perhaps reading a couple articles if I’m lucky.
I started a project in June about making an index card a day but I got discouraged so I haven’t done that lately but I realize now this is the perfect opportunity to get out the index cards and begin to create again even when there is so much dust collected… I might as well use dust as one of the media components of my next mixed media piece.
One of my dearest friends watched my descent into an almost overwhelming home improvement funk and he told me “Be sure to spend time creating today. Don’t give that up. Please.”
Even though my writing is taking longer today, I am grateful I am here.
Creating.
I'm not necessarily fitting this "episode of creating" into anything in particular, but I'm happily slipping into creating simply because it feels good.
Maybe this qualifies as only stolen moments. No. These are not stolen moments alone.
Why?
Intention. Promise. Intention. Passionate Action.
I promise, oh Creativity Angels, Muses, Goddesses, Friends and whomever, to not make creativity theft a practice but will instead continue to make it a conscious part of my productive life.
And so it is.
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This writing was inspired by a writing prompt from The Passionate Writer Series. The quote for the day was from Clarissa Pinkola Estes:
“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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