Looking for the marvelous
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -Bill Moyers
This is my brain right now…
And this is the amount of creativity I’ve been having…
This is amount of projects I’ve been planning…
And the amount of inspired writing I’ve been doing…
Life is rather mundane these days, needless to say not a lot of creativity. Eegads, even the pics are unoriginal! Right, I don’t want to be whinger…
Cultural Expression Diversion Ahead
I gotta confess that I greatly prefer the use of the word whinger-known in a more European cultural setting-over the word whiner-more likely used in a North American context. Knowing that word has also brought a greater understanding of the subtle irony to Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia’s residence in Little Whinging, Surrey in the Harry Potter series. Can you imagine a town filled with ‘em? Whingers, that is. Anyway, back to the mundane…
Without sounding too pathetic, recent days have been filled with the filling of boxes. Then the moving of boxes. And the storing of boxes. Not much creativity there. With a month to go before the summer holiday trip, we have already begun living out of suitcases, for everything else has gone into a box…which has been moved and stored…
I can imagine expansive vistas providing a huge ’scope for the imagination’, as Anne would say. But that is not now. That is yet to come. The ‘now’ is filled with the mundane. Yikes, that does sound pathetic!
Guess it’s time to dig deep into the reserves of creativity to pierce through this season of mundane and discover the marvelous on the other side.
hang in there. take care.
03 Jun 2007 at 4:11 am
While all is in storage, perhaps you can relax as you cannot be tempted by all the projects you need to do and staring at you every day. So perhaps its time to try a visit to a yarn shop to begin a mini and different project?
03 Jun 2007 at 8:48 am
I think this post is pretty creative! Don’t be too hard on yourself - I’m having a bit of a “mind’s gone blank” day, too, and I don’t have the excuse of a house move.
03 Jun 2007 at 12:27 pm
It seems like all things interesting came to a skidding halt 2 months after I quit my job and moved to Canada to live in my in-laws’ basement. I try to take more pictures and photograph my knitting. sigh.
03 Jun 2007 at 7:47 pm
I know the feeling, I tend to get anxious if I don’t do something with my hands other than cleaning, I have to keep the balance.
It’s been 7 years since we haven’t moved, the last time we did, we moved twice in a year, so I deserve a few years of a break!
04 Jun 2007 at 8:36 pm
don’t worry, there is a flicker of hope for the creative mind…just light a candle
04 Jun 2007 at 9:47 pm
I have to remind myself that INPUT is required prior to OUTPUT. . . . and that so-called ‘down times’ are a required ingredient to the creative mind, body and spirit! I also have to remind myself that if my hands are full of whatever it is I’m working on/holding on to, then they aren’t free for new things. . . . And oh - the fun and joy of new things and new adventures! But those blah times can still feel SO blah. . . .
sigh. . . .
12 Jun 2007 at 2:39 pm