Everyday creativity

"Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary." Dewitt Jones

An uplifting and inspiring film, Everyday Creativity with Dewitt Jones, photojournalist, can be viewed at http://www.everydaycreativityfilm.com/.

Key concepts from the film:

-- See the extraordinary in the ordinary.
-- Every act can be a creative one.
-- Creativity is a matter of perspective.
-- There's always more than one right answer.
-- Reframe problems into opportunities.
-- Don't be afraid to make mistakes.
-- Break the pattern.
-- Train your technique.
-- You've got to really care.

I would add -- Take time to see and draw the one thousand things in the everyday. Keeping a sketch journal provides a place to pause and register the world seen. Here, my napping cat, Buck.

Begin it now

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This blog was inspired by Sebastian, a spiritual healer, who advised me to keep a virtual journal - now! He spoke my truth when we confronted me with simply watching clouds drift by. Indeed.

I recall days, lying on my back in the middle of a spring green wheat field, blanketed by the warmth of the sun, watching puffy white clouds drift across an open valley. And I wondered. About life. About love. About who I would be. If only I could hitch a ride on a passing cloud...

But wondering without action would find me still wondering 30 years from now. And so this is my challenge - to take action now, to bring forward my inspired best. If you find yourself joining this journey, it is my wish that you, too, will be inspired to be your best.

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Photo of Sunol Regional Park, California