In search of creativity

Well, today is November 30th... my 30th blog post in 30 days. I'm pretty excited to have finished the month. I'm extending my "blog a day" goal through the end of December. I'm enjoying it even if hardly anyone is reading it. It makes me feel creative.

I am hoping to get a camera for myself this next year. Not a point and shoot. I want a DSLR. It is another outlet for creativity. I find myself craving outlets for creativity in my life these days. I don't want to just be an observer all the time. I want to participate, and by creating I have something to show for it... even if it's just showing it to myself.

One of Mom's paintings

My mother started painting in her 50s. She really enjoyed it. And then one day she seemed to run out of things to paint, or was no longer interested, and the stuff got put in the closet. After she died we found a whole box of canvases with her paintings on them... stuff she either didn't finish or didn't like enough to display. It was a lot of fun to look through. Then in her 60s she started tap dancing. She'd not been a dancer... she was a beginner in her 60s. But quickly they moved her from the beginner class to join The Silver  Tappers. And then she was showing newbies how to tap and even choreographing for the group. She even made costumes for them.

I look back now and see that Mom and I are alike in this too. She reached a point where she'd raised her kids and her job was not a challenge. She needed to be creative. And she went out and did something about it. I like this. It encourages me to try. The worst that can happen with any endeavor is failure. And failure is really isn't that big a deal... it either makes you work harder, or it leads you to something else. :)