A reshare from the About: Who I Am page:
WHY I CREATE:
At the heart of what I do is a sincere appreciation for the creative process.
I’ve always had an innate drive to create. And I believe inspiration visits everyone.
In fact, I believe that impulse to create lives inside all human beings.
Because ideas “come to us”…
From where, exactly, I don’t know… (Exactly…)
But my own creative process is a partnership with those mysterious, magical, creative ethers, for sure.
And I believe it’s up to each of us to decide to take action on the ideas or inspirations that come to us…
We can even choose to create as part of a regular practice. Like yoga or piano or painting.
We can practice taking creative action and work it out like a muscle.
We can even choose to create part-time. We can be weekend warriors who make a little time and a little space, here and there, to make a little something for ourselves.
WHY I create is, mostly, because I can’t help myself.
After I first noticed that ideas would “come to me”, it took a long while before I decided to start catching them.
And eventually, I even learned how to organize them and take tiny actions to start makin’m happen.
There are humans out there who choose to only create more humans. Others choose to create things for money. And still, others create simply for the simple joy of creation.
Sometimes, we create all those things and for all those reasons.
As I see it, humans can’t help being creative.
And I share this notion, with one of my favorite creative teachers, Elizabeth Gilbert…
It’s the idea that ALL human beings are creative by way of being human.
And since we’re all being human in unique ways, we’re also creative in unique ways.
We’re living unique human life experiences, and we express our unique life in our own creative voice.
I love sharing my unique life, experiences/expertise, and creating outside the confines of corporate cubicles.
I love feeling free to make more of my own unique ideas into things.
And I especially love being able to help other creative humans create their own things.
