Your Creative Garden

Musing…

Time to listen within for the Muse who plants seeds of creativity within us, in the form of desires, passions to be expressed, dreams, visions of some new endeavor we’d like hands-on experience with. This is like looking through seed catalogues, imagining, dreaming, and envisioning what those little seeds could offer for your pleasure and satisfaction. This IS what we’re after, you know – pleasure, beauty, delight, deep satisfaction in being able to exclaim: “Look what I’ve created!” all to enjoy!

Kate’s turn:

Sometimes we have so many ideas, so many different things we’d love to play with, to try out and see if that’s where we’d like to put more energy into in order to develop that seed. This can be ok when we’re in an experimenting phase – getting a sampler or taste of some creative experiences to learn how much we really love it. Do we want to spend more energy in this creative urging? 

Sometimes it seems as though I have 2 creative gardens that compete for my attention. While I tend to my watercolor creative garden, I feel as though I somewhat neglect my energy healing passion. In my musing, I begin to develop classes, learn new techniques, and then an art exhibit invites me to tend to that garden. This might be like trying to grow prize orchids and also prize tomatoes! Perhaps a prize isn’t necessary; I can live with a level of satisfaction that allows me to enjoy both. All to say that choosing your seeds according to your level of energy, your level of hope and expectation for fulfillment and satisfaction merits some thought.

Get Fired Up:

• Have you listened to the Muse, who may have presented quite a seed catalogue of ideas, passions, and desires? Let’s not let them go to waste on fallow ground, but rather begin to plant them in fertile ground. List all of these along with your vision or dream of the pleasure and joy you’d receive.
• Then, discern which seed(s) you’ll put energy into in the next few weeks. Weigh the attention and commitment that would be called for to give each one a chance for development.
• How about getting some actual materials to parallel your creative garden with a simple plant project? This garden metaphor is classic in fostering new growth; it gives us concrete experience to model a more abstract, unfamiliar garden we’re investing energy into.