What do you hope your kids will learn about creativity from you? I have many hopes in this area! I’ll share just one, but it’s a big one. I hope that my son has a sense of himself as a creative, active thinker and as someone who feels deeply. We know that to be human is to experience a range of situations and emotions, some exquisitely beautiful, others confounding, still other painful. We are inundated with images of suffering in our world. A great danger is that one will become numb to the joys of this life and to the tragedies. Allowing generative and genuine responses in ourselves, and sometimes finding ways to act on what we believe can come into existence—imagining and feeling and sometimes making what is life-affirming—this is a daily challenge for us humans. I hope that my son sees that creative action is a way of valuing people—including one’s self—and our shared planet.
this is so beautifully said: creative action is a way of valuing people—including one’s self—and our shared planet.
This was lovely.
I know! I like hearing from women who work in other mediums, but the interviews with the poets are always so beautiful!