Creativity in your life

Today I attended the sec­ond ses­sion of Artie Isaac’s Cre­ativ­ity in Your Life sem­i­nar series at the Colum­bus Museum of Art. This three part series is designed to help peo­ple redis­cover and cul­ti­vate cre­ativ­ity in daily life. The two classes have been great. Artie is an incred­i­ble teacher — full of life, hon­esty, and thought­ful insight. The hour and a half spent learn­ing from him is some of the most valu­able edu­ca­tion I have received in my adult life. His teach­ing has reminded me that life is short, our time is lim­ited, and we as humans should spend more of our time being cre­ative and explor­ing our pas­sion and less of it on things of lit­tle importance.

I have chal­lenged myself as part of the course to get back into mak­ing music. My goals are real­is­tic in that I am not plan­ning on quit­ting my day job, load­ing up the fam­ily in a vw bus, and tour­ing the nation in jump suits. Rather, I am going to focus on one by one com­plet­ing the many mood Inge and riffs I have com­piled over the years and actu­ally cre­at­ing some fully formed songs. I will try to write them one by one, and ide­ally com­plete one a month. Given the time, I’ll try to record them too. First and fore­most, I just want to cre­ate. It is too impor­tant not to.

In doing this, I hope to rekin­dle my love for writ­ing and play­ing music. I want to use my tal­ents, mod­est as they may be, to make some­thing. Will it be great or even any good? Who knows? I guess the point is to just enjoy the moment — the act of cre­at­ing — and go with it.

Good, bad, or oth­er­wise, I want to thank Artie for con­tin­u­ing to push me down the path of cre­ativ­ity. I am excited to see where it goes next.

The photo was taken in class, as part of an exer­cise on the impor­tance of per­spec­tive. Given the right per­spec­tive, you can eas­ily make the equa­tion true. Do you see it?