A Creative Life

Found myself daydreaming this morning when I was supposed to be working, drinking in the quiet with my coffee.

Instead of writing, I watched two crows dutifully go about their work as they gathered nesting materials in the rain.

I've been reading a lot about creativity lately. I've been struck by how broad the definition has become for me as I've grown older.

Sure, I studied painting and literature in university, easily plopped in the 'creative' category. But I wonder, aren't those crows just as creative as the old masters I learned about in school?

Isn't it the same instinct / knowing / source at work in their nest-making as well as in my paintbox? Or my garden? Or the vital community which surrounds me, yourself included?

I wonder, in a place and time that is so focused on destruction, when we seem to believe that our very nature is destructive - what might happen if we embraced our roles as creatives in the world?

I'm not talking about picking up a paintbrush.

I'm talking about viewing the work we already all do, the work of daily life, in the light of truth; all of our daily labours are acts of creativity.

Whether that's raising a child, planting a garden, learning a new skill, cooking a meal, building a community . . . how might our view of ourselves, indeed our view of the world at large, shift, if we acknowledged the creative nature of those acts? If we leaned into it?

If we saw them as votes cast towards our better nature? Our possibility?

Your life is already artful - waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art. - Toni Morrison

To make living itself an art, that is the goal. - Henry Miller.

As always.

Best,
S

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