Prompting Yourself To Write 43: What Creativity Means To Me - Continued How my friend Jo Ann wrote a blog post where she wrote abote living in the present and exploring the unlimited opportunities one has ti use his or her creativity in everyday life. She wrote of approaching the problems one faces with imagination and turning them into blessings. I am thnkful for all the good I've experiences in my life and the gift of creativity that The Great Creator has, for some reason not yet clear to me, bestowed on me. I believe that my creativity is meant not just to enrich my life, but the lives of others and that, by doing so, I will be making a small contribution toward making the world we all share a much better place for everyone.In yesterday's post I wrote of the inspiration for it, and this 2nd part.
As I try to move forward with my personal, career, and creative lives, by relocating, I hope, to Texas, I can't help but believe, as Jo Ann writes in a poem, that the present is ripe with great opportunity if I only understood how best to grasp it.
I have shown, over a decade of blogging, that I am able to use my creativity to enrich the lives of others all around the world. I know this is true because people have told me so. Sharing my gift for writing has helped sustain me during my own most dark and difficult moments.
Another friend has urged me to not settle for just any old job that comes my way, to consider as a goal finding a career related in some way to my abilities as a writer.
Figuring out just what that may be, and how to get such a job, along with successfully relocating myself elsewhere than where I am, are on my agenda for the days ahead...for tonight I have a list to complete. :-D
58. Creativity means being unemployed, since fall 2010, taking a series of computer classes to add to my marketable skills, then finding an imaginative way to break an ankle, and spending the recovery year reading, both for faith and inspiration, and considering my personal, career and creative futures, with particular focus on moving out of state completely and starting fresh deep in the heart of Texas.
59. Creativity means finding ways to be different when commenting on other blogs.
60. Creativity means writing about a bicycle named Pops, forgetting about him, and now considering resurrecting him.
61. Creativity means thinking about PLACE and why I write about it.
62. Creativity means writing book reviews.
63. Creativity means digging up roots in the family garden.
64. Creativity means sharing humor and odd thoughts.
65. Creativity means a camera carrying conservative.
66. Creativity means sharing the odd thoughts that wander through my brain while taking a shower.
67. Creativitymeans sharing the Sermons of Reverend G. Willikers, pastor of the Discombobulated Church in the Wildwood.
68. Creativity means sharing moments in the life of a Mad Macedonian.
69. Creativity means cooking like mad and sharing the resulting recipes.
70. Creativity means dining out with the Mad Macedonian.
71. Creativity means musings on film, TV and music.
72. Creativity means sharing opinions and essays on life, the universe and everything.
73. Creativity means sharing poetry, short stories and more.
74. Creativity means that IC UC We All C the OC.
75. Creativity means 100 word musings.
76. Creativity means writing Air Poetry.
77. Creativity means the Limericks of a Mad Macedonian.
78. Creativity means the Genealogical Ditties of a Mad Macedonian.
79. Creativity means prompting myself and others, to write.
80. Creativitty means taking on Sit Spot Challenges.
81. Creativity means writing about Murder Most Fowl, and wondering if there is a story to be told.
82. Creativity means telling the story of a photograph.
83. Creativity means taking a hike and coming back with a story to tell.
84. Creativity means writing about a Mad Macedonian on a bicycle.
85. Creativity means sharing the creative meowsings of 2 poetic and storytelling pussycats.
86. Creativity means sharing the opinions of Nikita Cat.
87. Creativity means sharing Nikita's wonderful life.
88. Creativity means sharing the opinions of Elvira Mistress of Felinity.
89. Creativity means sharing the wonderful life of Elvira Mistress of Felinity.
90. Creativity means the Elvira Factor and entering the No Bull Zone.
91. Creativity means sharing how laughter makes the whiskers all twitchy.
92. Creativity means 100 word cat stories.
93. Creativity means Daddy Kiril at Large.
94. Creativity means Nikita and Elvira on You Tube.
95. Creativity means photos of critters with cats on the brain.
96. Creativity means capturing street scenes of cats outdoors.
97. Creativity means taking a stroll with the cats and sharing the adventure.
98. Creativity means successfully coming up with 101 ways to describe just what creativity means to me. :-D
More clever thoughts on creativity, Kiril.
And you also spent a fair amount of time adding hyperlinks, which, one day, I hope to visit.
For now, I am amused, tickled, and thoroughly entertained with the consistency of your "Mad Macedonian" brand, which I believe is not angry, but cooky in a fun-loving way.
Loved it, too!
Posted by: Amanda Socci | August 11, 2012 at 05:59 AM
Creativity has often been my enemy, making me jump my
routine tracks, and causing me to lose time and money. But creativity has also been a dear friend, showing me how to cover my losses and rebuild capital. It's kind of a to and fro motion, a yin and yang.
Life happens somewhere in between.
I've often been in a routine when creativity pulls or pushes me away; not as often, a I yearn for the security of routine after the scariness of too much creativity.
I think I have now made creativity a routine; I'm still trying to make routine more creative, but routine usually wins.
;)
Posted by: jaspar | August 12, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Ah, I think I may have to revisit that blog post... maybe it will inspire me.
Lordy, but you made a wonderful thing of my prompt.
Posted by: Jo Ann J. A. Jordan | August 29, 2012 at 10:58 PM