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

MarkD

Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
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?
 

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.
 


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