Is everyone getting a healthy portion of creativity into their schedules?

[MarkD]

Watching this video made me think of those of you I know are writers, visual artists, musicians, poets, dancers and crafters, @palides2021, @DailyArtsyCrafter, @Stoppelmann, @Gary O' and everyone else who have fallen victim to my intermittent memory. This video should help you feel better about claiming the time for these activities without feeling you ought to be doing something more useful or profitable. As she says we know the time we put into exercise is worthwhile, we need to recognize the self nurture involved in creative activities too.

I put all my creative juices into making a garden and photography now while my wife Lia is still making weavings. What sorts of activities do you find enriching now?

 

[Muskrat]

I guess you could call my project houses hobbies. My last house took about a year to redo. But doing pretty simple reno has given me tons of satisfaction and entertainment. Just wish the houses were closer to where I live…or that I had a less costly hobby. I also am working rather lazily on learning spanish…

 

[JBR]

Interesting you should raise the topic, MarkD. It was just a couple days ago I came across a few cartoons I'd drawn for my daughter when she was four or five. I attached copies of them to an email and sent them to her. I've hardly drawn any cartoons in recent years.

These days, I only seem to have time for writing the occasional article for publication (that was a career for me, during a stretch in my life)... so that's non-fiction. I did take a six-month course once from UBC in short fiction writing, around the time I was retiring. I have about 15 short stories but haven't; published even one of those yet. Every week or so, I tweak one of them to improve it. Did a little of that a few days ago.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I play saxophone , paint pictures and make decorative cookies, ALL I consider as various forms of art. I don’t look at them as wasted time. It rellaxes me tenfold and I’m grateful to do it. My artwork is usually given away….. including the cookies.

 

[Oldeagle66]

I'm into flight simulators, been playing for years. Today I will plan a new flight going to a new airport with terrible weather and an engine fire, along with bad brakes during landing.