Creative Block

Don’t look now! Just kidding, look as long as you want, in fact I hope you keep coming back to look over and over again! Can you guess where my inspiration for this week’s post comes from? My take away from this is that if I am ever in a place where I am stumped about what to share, that it will be as temporary as any kind of eclipse I care to place in front of me. I’m winning!

“Being suddenly hit years later with the “creative bug“ is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.”

Hugh Macleod

We are all born creative, and the artist child stays with us forever. I ignored mine for what seems like at least a couple of lifetimes. Can I just say how much fun it is to play again? For reals! Ah, but if I would choose to create for no other reason than to just enjoy what I am creating! Treat creative blocks like dust bunnies, just keep moving and they get out of the way all on their own.

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.”

Alan Alda

The best advice I would give to my younger self today would be to never stop playing. If you don’t stop playing, laughing remains natural, and you’ll grow calluses on your fingers from coloring so much it won’t hurt when you get older.

“The creative adult is the child who survived.”

Ursula Le Guin

They still sell crayons, and paint, and markers, and colored pencils, and the world is never going to run out of ways to inspire you. Look up, ( but be careful today ), look down, and all around. Get your crayons and start playing. Don’t worry about going outside the lines, that’s why we call it art!

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

Stephen King

Talk soon…

G