I am just back from Dubai. The city of superlatives in every form, towering above a sea of average Western franchises. This time, my most memorable moments came in my encounters with the ordinary people I met and the dreams they shared with me. Nature loves diversity, and creativity too. The Wheel of Creativity is turning.
How my mother taught me to love
I have a cupboard in my mind where I keep a collection of images from my life, and the lingering feelings that go with them. Every Mother’s Day, there is one I must take out and look at. It was the moment when everything changed – the day I learned something about love that I shall never forget.
Making Creative Choices… Collaborating with Life
Every moment in life is rich with possibility, especially the moments we see as “getting there.” When we are willing to be surprised, willing to be touched, willing to engage, we open the door for Life to come in. Life is always in the street with presents, and it’s looking for collaborators. How we respond is our choice, and that choice can be creative. What gifts have you found in the street today? How are you responding?
“The soul of creativity is love.”
In the face of myriad marketing messages of love, it is easy to lose sight of its true creative power to change the world. It was Mozart who put it best for me: “The soul of creativity is love… love… love.” In my experience, the love that flows through a creative spirit encompasses every other kind.
Connect. Create. Live.
Isolation may be the modern-day plague, creating a sense of malaise and listlessness that weakens us individually as well as collectively. If each of us simply listened to our own personal longings and acted as if they were the guideposts to our creative paths, the world would be a different place.
creativity postcards: The Eden Project
All it takes to change the world is one person with a vision and the commitment to see it through. Creativity is nothing if not this, big ideas sprouting and growing from nothing in small corners all over the world. I have seen dozens of these corners; and they never cease to inspire me. So I have decided to share the best of these with you here – postcards from the creative process – in hopes they will inspire you too.