Comments on: The Joys of Creativity

By: Sat Kartar

Sat Kartar — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:34:37 +0000

Hello Peter and Creative Souls,

I like that you said you like your creativity to be the color of music. Mine is the color of painting qua painting on canvases. However, once I was a fine music major and I was frustrated because I was blocked creatively. So, I had a car accident totally a Triumph Spitfire into a guard rail and went blind for 1/2 hour.

I decided to pray by saying, God, I will bring love and joy into the world through colour and shape. Within a nano second, I could see little purple lights out into the city, then white twinkling lights came in full vision. Without thinking that there is color and shape in music, I went to the Dir. of the Music Dept. and canceled my major to become an Art Major.

I am very happy that I did, I just wish that I continued the flute, piano and other instrument playing. I have been inspired lately to start to play again and make colour and shape appear auditorally as it can become. Thanks for your instigation to make creativity in music again. I was blessed to have been brought the finest Art Mentor who was a expert Visual Perceptionists making my commitment self-realized. THE LESSON MAY BE THAT THE COLOR OF CREATIVITY IS ACTUALLY IN EVERYTHING.
Have a creative music day!!!
Sat Kartar

By: Carol Jay

Carol Jay — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:23:09 +0000

I’m glad you’re writing again, Peter. If there’s one thing I know about you, is that you are always happiest when you’re right in the middle of the creative process. Best wishes for some outstanding work to come from that little studio at the end of the hallway. A fan.

Carol

By: Peter Link

Peter Link — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:00:34 +0000

Hey Sara,

That was just a beautiful comment – rich with heart and wisdom. And you’re right. Creativity comes in all colors. I just like mine especially to be the color of music.

By: Sara Gray

Sara Gray — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:37:38 +0000

Hi Peter,
First of all, the photo in this post just cracks me up! But it resonates with me as well. I can’t tell you how many times in my creative life as a graphic designer, website builder, problem-solver that I have felt just like that poor soul in the chair. Or like you when you get that empty, hollow feeling inside because you feel as if your “creative muscle” has atrophied.

For me, sometimes that feeling means I need to step back from whatever patterns my life has taken on and BREATHE. Sometimes that empty-I-just-don’t-have-it-in-me-feeling is simply exhaustion. And sometimes it means I have to give myself a talking to.

It goes something like this: “Sara, you need to take a deep breath. Clear your mind. Breathe. Let go. Let go. Let go.” I don’t know why, but it always surprises me when I do this little exercise and the ideas start flowing. Sometimes, I have to do it several times in a row. Sometimes all it takes is the intention!

But, what I continue to remind myself of is this: creativity is in everything we do, whether it’s the mundane, tedious aspects of our lives or the free-flowing joy of pure inspiration in all the forms it takes (music, writing, painting, etc.)

I have come to realize that I can make something as silly as wiping up my kitchen counter into a creative process by HOW I decide to do it. Do I sing while I wipe? Do I choose to vent any pent up stress while I furiously clean up the counter into the epitome of cleanliness? It’s a dumb example of how to be creative. But that’s the point. We don’t have to look for creativity. We just are. God gave that to us.