Let's Get Creative
by Charlotte Bennardo Creativity is the theme for May. How do we find it? Use it? Share it? Lose it? Sharing is the easy part; we create something like a book, a poem, a picture, a garden, a dress, a building- and we show others, offer it for sale, read it aloud, give it away, invite animals and people in. Using it is simple too; we draw on our creativity to write the book, create the poem, paint the picture, plant the garden, sew the dress, construct the building. But what about when we lose or creativity? How do we find it again? Don't despair, your creativity is still there. Here's one place I go, my meditation garden. When my creativity seems frozen, I pull weeds, talk to the flowers, let my mind wander. Here's another way to rekindle my creativity, I visit with books. Either re-read old favorites or read a new author. See how others handle a situation, and mulling over if it will work for my novel. If not, what if I did the opposite? That usually gets my mind humm...
