Create Your Own Way

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
~ Mary Lou Cook

Joy often comes when we become so absorbed in creating something new that we forget about everything else. Children know how to do that well. In fact, I'm reminded of something author Brenda Ueland once said about the process of writing. The creative act of writing should not be like a mountain top experience, but rather like a child stringing beads in kindergarten -- happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Is there anything in this list that captivates your imagination to do something new today? And become as happily absorbed in it as a child?

 

 

 

~ paint ~ putter ~ puzzle ~

~ glue ~ sprinkle ~ bead ~

~ waltz ~ strum ~ skate ~

~ sing ~ color ~ wrap ~

~ stitch ~ compose ~ play ~

~ eat ~ sip ~ bake ~

~ ponder ~ draw ~ design ~

~ craft ~ sculpt ~ write ~

~ decorate ~ read ~ dream ~ 

Today, I'm happily puttering, baking fruitcake,

and sipping hot apple cider! And you?

Brenda
xox


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