Prompting Yourself To Write 43: What Creativity Means To Me
Last monday my friend Jo Ann, writer of the Chronicles blog, had a great post, with the subject of the essay and poem being creativity. She asked her readers to consider doing their own blog post on the subject and so I spent some time on tuesday and wednesday thinking and writing, while eating lunch at a pair of local fast food joints.

Creativity means the power, challenge and talent to write and somehow, some way, developing it.
Creativity means reaching a fork in the road that is the journey of my life.
Creativity means writing and praying a Creative Writer's Prayer and having faith in one's abilities...
1. Creativity means learning to drive a car, before I was a year old, in order to impress a girl (I've got pictures to prove it!).
2. Creativity means early learning, via Romper Room, Bozo the Clown and Hobo Kelly.
3. Creativity means having my imagination stirred by a mother who read to me, then encouraged me to read for myself.
4. Creativity means an award-winning elementary school rock and gem science project.
5. Creativity means being a white kid standing before an audience of black students in the school auditorium, and performing MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech for Black History Month, in elementary school.
6. Creativity means taking up the violin in the 4th grade and sticking with it all the way through the end of High School.
7. Creativity means writing my 1st story in elementary school and finding such joy in it that creative writing of all sorts, from stories to book reports, became integral parts of who I was as a student in school all the way through college.
8. Creativity means waking up in the middle of the night and swearing I saw the closet door open and shut, on its own accord, in my bedroom.
9. Creativity means seeing a giant red globe fly across sky on a cloudy afternoon, with a schoolmate as witness to this UFO.
10. Creativity means having my young imagination stirred by the books I read and the TV shows and movies i watched growing up.
11. Creativity means having the courage to try to teach my 4th grade classmates how to play a game called Danish (A team game sort of like baseball, but without the bat, or a pitcher, and using a tennis ball) and not having to say I'm sorry for not entirely succeeding.
12. Creativity means having my young imagination stirred by Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett and Chick Hearn to such an extent tht I'd immitate them while tossing a tennis ball against a wall, or shooting hoops alone.
13. Creativity means learning to enjoy speaking in front of others in class, or in dramatic skits.
14. Creativity means teaching myself, at an early age, to safelywalk and read a book, or magazine, at the same time and live to tell about it.
15. Creativity meand teaching myself to navigate every mass transit system from LA to San Bernardino and Brea to San Diego, from the time I was a teen, finally trusted by my mom to go out on my own.
16. Creativity means erasing paragraphs, even whole pages, in an early Star Trek "History" book and re-writing things much more to my liking.
17. Creativity means dressing up, at 16, as Miss America 1976, for an amusing 1 mile walk, escorting my young sisters to the Girl Scout halloween party, that embarrassed the hell out of the little darlings, freaked out the Den Mother when she opened the door, and for which, I think, the sisters have yet to completely forgive me. (Yes, I DO have a photo laying around somewhere)
18. Creativity means teaching my teen self to cook my own breakfast of scrambled egg and bacon/sausage sandwiches.
19. Creativity means having one's imagination stired by spending a day in the home of legendary Star Trel Fan and author Bjo Trimble (The woman who saved Star Trek) in Los Angeles.
20. Creativity means writing a creative story as an assignment for a criminal justice class in college: Elay Ca. Police Interrogation, in 27 Year Old Murder Case, Uncovered
21. Creativity means building a large and varied book and comics, then video, then classical CD collections and eventually finding the best ways to give them all up by the time I was 40, because I needed the money.
22. Creativity means starting up a new, but just as varied book collection a couple of years after kissingall that had gone before good-bye.
23. Creativity means spending 17 years working in bookstores, finding different, entertaining, easy to understand, ways to display the merchandise on shelves and tables for customers to explore.
24. Creativity means finding new, different and unique magazines, books, videos and other merchandize to interest customers.
25. Creativity means finding ways to persuade customers that such merchandise was worth shelling out their hard hearned money for.
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