Creativity has been on my mind a lot lately…okay, it always is. But I just returned from a couple week’s “vacation” where I had planned to sit idly and ponder my creativity, blogging and The Write Elizabeth. When I got back and started reading around the Internet to catch up with a world outside the one-room studio I stayed in with three kids and a husband for 17 days, I read Christina Katz’s e-zine’s topic of the week, a post on creativity.
It started me thinking about creativity all over again.
Keeping three kids happy and occupied for 17 days in between visits to grandparents and to museums, I rarely had time to ponder. I had brought my laptop, hoping to get some editing done on video I plan to add to the site.
No such luck.
Quiet moments were at a minimum. But creative moments overflowed.
Like in the restaurant that had posted all the children’s crayon efforts. Their logo, a gazillion different ways of approaching the logo.
It was a theme played out along the way, as my 8-year-old captured the idea of the logo and re-designed it, adding embellishments throughout our trip and any time she had a crayon in her hand.
Like watching my kids devour the activities at a children’s museum, not just once but day after day after day. Creativity was everywhere they went and under everything they touched.
Like embracing the wonderful Denver Art Museum exhibit that allowed kids to make and play with words–a writing mother’s dream.
In a sense, that is what helped me to realize that perhaps my creativity could take a backseat to theirs for a short while. Or I could figure out a way to create alongside them (while still being able to supervise them in all the different worlds they wanted to explore.) Although they are–and I am–creative at home, there was something about being released into these unfamiliar (to them) buildings made for play and exploration. I still need to catch up on my sleep, but my creativity is firing all cylinders ahead.
What is some of the creative play you have been able to do recently that helped tap into something special in your work or hobby?

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