I would normally think anyone who cannot post to one website should not start a second site. Except that is exactly what I have done. With virtually zero activity on this site since August it leaves the impression that I just did not care anymore. Hopefully soon I can write more about the last year of my life, but until then please (also) visit my new blog at myGermanyMove.com. I will be posting there about my adventures during my upcoming move and new life in Germany. I will provide more details very soon.
Some people might think I don’t really have a creative process. That things just appear into my head and then happen to work out or not. From my point of view, things rarely work out being creative. Yet, in the end, perhaps that is really just my true creative process shining though. Ideas that need to develop over time can’t be constructed in a day.
I found this video of Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity at PvP Online. I am unfamiliar with who she is as a writer. However, I do find her discussion about the creative process very revealing to the work I am currently doing. My takeaway is we each have our own demons in our own creative processes. Each of which are dealt with in unique and varied ways.
I struggle with creativity and expanding my boundaries of work beyond where they exist today. Not only because of time considerations, but also because of the items I choose to work on from moment to moment and day to day. Sometimes I feel like my job doesn’t present the challenges I need to feed my creative demons. Forcing them to devour other parts of my focus. Perhaps this is the root cause of my desire to see “shiny things” around me. My creative demons reaching out for something to draw inspiration from.
The truth is even in the mundane I should see the creative. Transferring PDF content into a web page focused toward an electrical engineer is not the most exciting work in the world. Yet is my objective not the finished product? Would it not be more appropriate to see my creative desires as an accumulation of the whole project, instead of the individual piece in front of me? I would have to say YES! Each detail is the beginning of the final piece of art. And my block is sometimes I cannot see the forest for the tree in front of me.
A detail I work on overcoming everyday. A detail I strive to consume in the production of continually evolving work.
I played two games of Ultimate Frisbee tonight. My team hasn’t done that well, but I played quite a few points. Which is great for removing what belly I have. I wish we could win a game, but either way I am having fun. I really do miss playing Ultimate. I wish life afforded me the same time as when I was only working part time. It is amazing how much you can play around when your responsibilities only cover half the week.
Anni played her first games of Ultimate tonight. It was amazing to watch her improve over the course of a couple hours. I find Ultimate Frisbee difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t witnessed a game before. The mixing of football, soccer, and basketball concepts into a sport with a flat disc don’t seem to leap out to some people. I attempted to explain the 10 simple rules the best I could, but for someone whose sports while growing up consisted of rowing and the like concepts such as sidelines aren’t natural. Before we completed the second game there was an obvious difference compared with the first. I am very proud.
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