Robert Fritz begins in his book, Creating,saying, “Many of us have the suspicion that there is much more to life than what we have been led to expect. Perhaps our lives are filled with secret possibilities—possibilities that there are dimensions to ourselves, depths of our being, and heights to our aspirations that are lurking just below the surface.”
We each have the urge to do something that matters to us. Perhaps we exist only as shadows of our future selves, and this subtle yet persistent force nagging at our consciousness—to be a creator, to be one who brings into existence creations that previously lived only in our inner thoughts.
This deep longing to create resides within the soul of humanity. Beyond our basic instincts for survival which includes fulfilling such needs as food, warmth,water, and air— we also have a natural instinct for building, organizing, forming, and creating.
Webster defines creativity as ” creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness.” Webster tells us that the word create means ” to originate; to bring into being from nothing: to cause to exist. In other words, when we talk about creating we are talking about causality—that is causing something to exist that did not previously exist.
The creative process has had more impact, power and influence than any other process in history. Consider all of the inventions, the arts, architecture, and the amazing technological age we now live in as a result of the creative process.We have experienced so much innovation and growth in our lifetime. Read the rest of this entry »
” I have always known that I would take this road,but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.“Narihara
Life is a journey. Alongwith any journey comes the desire to want to write it down. As author Christina Baldwin states,” writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.” For some their entire lives are recorded on the pages of a diary, for others images and colors reveal to the rest of the world what transpired through their artistic images. However we choose to express our ideas, we bear witness to our experiences, we share our questions and the insights that come from questioning.
My teaching life was spent in this quest to assist others in expressing ideas as they came to pass. Ideas expressed in both art and in written words. It made for an extraordinary life spent over three decades with young people in several high schools with others who shared both the love of learning, teaching and a concern for the students under our supervision.
