Sitting in San Jose

San Jose airport...waiting to fly home....wi-fi connection and found the list of statements the class created on creativity....so instead, of knitting, egads what is the world coming to, I thought I would post a few. Remember the exercise: five words on creativity, trade a word with your table mate and create a statement from those words. They asked to be anonymous...sorry..they really deserve credit.
1. The creative process is scary in the beginning, but as success is achieved (sometimes serendipitiousy), it becomes an exhilirating, sleep depriving and often messy process.
2. Creativity needs to have focus and commitment knowing that frustration often follows experimentation....but in the end your dreams and great joy will come.
3. The creative process is engaging in discovery and struggle in spite of yourself...releasing your fear of failing.
4. Innovation can be an all consuming, intuitive, and freeing inner activity.
5. Although it is difficult, I am stretching and reaching to be open-minded and stay relaxed as I reach for the unknown.
That is just the first sampling.....what do you see of yourself or your own work in their statements? For me, it was both reassuring and enlightening, knowing that the paths may diverge as far as style or subject matter but in the end, we are all on the same journey.

On another note, a new book: In Buddha's Kitchen subtitle: Cooking, Being Cooked and other Adventures in a Meditation Center byKimberley Snow from Shambala Press. Picked this gem up in Monterey on the way to Asilomar...reading every night...almost finished and not wanting it to end.