Creative Dreams

Melba tagged me to share my creative dreams. What a wonderful way to finish off NaBloPoMo, especially as the time was full of inspiration and new creative blogging friends. I am so glad that I participated this year.

I have been thinking about my creative dreams lately. I've got a million of them. Some have been close to my heart for years, some are new, and some have snuck up on me unawares. On Monday in my Expressive Arts therapy class our focus was theatre and it hit me like a storm how much I missed it. The depth of my reaction was completely unexpected and sent me reeling for a couple of days. Clearly that needs to be a part of my life.

At the heart of my creative dreams is my deeply held belief that the arts belong to everybody. All the arts. Everybody. Yep, that means I think everyone should have the experience of singing out loud and dancing with abandon and getting their hands mucky with clay and sharing their story in words and much, much more. All of it is a gift for each of us, a gift for us to experience ourselves and for us to share. That's why I love the creative blogging community. That's why I started Circe's Circle. That's why I do the work that I do.

And I also have to remember that because the arts belong to everybody, that means me too. I need time to express myself creatively. I'm coming to understand that my creativity lends itself to something akin to performance art - something that combines many disciplines and creates magic in a particular space, at a particular time. For my Expressive Arts studio project I'm going to be turning my Wishcasting blog into a performance piece. I'll share my wishes and the audience will have a chance to cast their own.

And the project that's been in my heart for 10 years is a multidisciplinary production of a beautiful classic tale. Sometimes I can be pretty hard on myself for not having realized this particular project. But for the first time it has occurred to me that perhaps it's taken this long for me to be ready for it. It involves theatre, storytelling, photography, music and who knows what else. Maybe puppets. I love puppets.

Ultimately my creative dream is living creatively by expressing myself through the arts and supporting others in doing the same, by approaching life itself as art and seeing what beauty I can create in the time I have.

Wishing life and love to your creative dreams,

Jamie

Wish Box

For a while I've been thinking about making a wish box. I read a book that recommended that a fun and easy way to energize your hopes and desires to create a box and put in it all the things you wished for. This appealed to me a great deal because you can pop your wishes in box and then let it go. I really wanted to do it.

But then I got rather particular about the kind of box I wanted, the kind of size it should be, etc. I shopped. I looked. Actually I even had an accident at a store picking a possible box off a high shelf and having a heavy glass candle holder fall directly on my tooth! (I was okay though) Being particular definitely slowed the process down. In fact, I forgot about it entirely.

Then the other day I was reading Jenn's post about dream boxes and it sparked my memory. And amazingly I had a box from my wonderful new rubber boots. I got straight to work! I had the best time sitting on the floor, drinking several cups of tea, pulling pictures out of magazines with a well-loved movie playing in the background. Time just flew by. And I have to tell you looking at the collage on top just makes me beam. This is so, so, so me.

And here's the kicker. When I was going through mags I came across a picture of a pair of boots I just went crazy for. And today I found them and bought them! The wishes are coming true all ready!

What are you going to wish for?