Saturday, April 07, 2007
Creativity...
How is it that the more I want or try to be creative, the more I'm sucked into a linear world of concrete thinking and pragmatism. There are days that I just want to go home, pull out my guitar and breathe with the strings. I keep finding myself plugging my ipod in and shutting out the world, the noise, the people and getting lost in jazz or blues or something random. I think I have poetry inside of me... I think it wants out but I can't seem to remember where I left it. I haven't drawn, painted, sculpted or done much artistically since high school. I'm pretty sure that I was made to be more of a creative person and life has somehow forced me into a different mold. I've been watching my son Caleb pull out the art box, paints, legos or his guitar and praying that he never loses his artistic, creative imagination. We like to play this word game we call the silly game. It starts with wrestling or snuggling and evolves into silly threats. I'll say, "you better watch it buddy or I'll tickle you until you pee!" Then he'll say, "if you do that I'll cover you in jelly and let ants crawl all over you!" Then I say something like, "if you do that, I'll lock you in a closet full of spiders!" The game can continue with funny, gross, even greusome stuff for quite a while. I think our longest game was about 30 minutes or so. It's really fun to hear and imagine the things he says. Creativity must be linked to innocence in some way. Maybe even naivety, simplicity. Kids never have a problem tasting the color C#minor or hearing the number blue. I can't seem to appreciate the unrealistic plot twists of 24 anymore. It's funny, the first active verb ever used of God was "created." "In the beginning, God created..." I wonder if creativity is linked to spirituality? If so, would that place Dave Matthews or John Lennon or Jim Morrison or Bob Marley on a higher spiritual plane? Perhaps if that type of creativity is possible in a life devoid of the creator of creativity, one filled with the spirit of the creator must be even more creative. So then.... what might that say about me?
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Well, you have certainly raised the bar on creativity! On the scale if Dave Matthews and John Lennon are on one spiritual plane because of their spirituality and you are higher than them because you know the Lord, then you would need a new measure to see where I am (i.e., how low) on the scale! ;)
I've seen some of your work Pete and you are one of the most creative people I know and your skills go far beyond the tangible things in life. You challenge me to go above the mediocre level I often find myself settling for...
- Bryan
dude, that's a huge fish in bryan's pic.
"The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children,
when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child
kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life.
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit
fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged.
They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it
again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong
enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough
to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning,
"Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon.
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike;
it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired
of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy;
for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." - G.K. Chesterton
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