Create Actively

Creativity is all around.  Where do you look?  What do you see and hear?  I grew up in a fortunate house where both parents had graduated from college and where successful in their fields.  My mother is very "theatrical, innovative, and crazy". (that's the best way to put it mom...)  My father is a very open minded engineer.  Now from my mom doing something with scrapbooking (or at least wanting to) and my dad's problem solving skills, I have grown up all around creativity.

At a young age I developed a liking to drumming, hitting pots and pans on occasion.  My parents would turn on the dish washer as they went into their room after putting the kids to sleep and I would make up beats in my head to the rhythm of the machine.  And although I haven't been in any part of a musical group since high school, I still walk to a beat and compose percussion music mentally.  When you hear an obnoxious kink in the dryer from a pair of jeans, I hear a rhythm.  When you hear the loud construction work on you way to work, I am tapping out a funky beat.  And when the engineering side of me comes out (just ask my friends... or my wife, who hated my concrete canoe and never let me forget it) construction is cool!  Blue prints are someones innovation and creativity waiting to explode into something much, much bigger.

The very first post of this blog comes from a take home essay test I took in a class called History of Creativity.  The post explains the question well.  Take a look, it is much different from my normal creative niche.  Expand your horizons.  Take a different stance.  Enjoy the world around you!

So, I repeat my initial questions: Where do you look?  What do you see and hear?  "And if I don't?" you ask... MAKE something!