Creativity Challenge

From September, 2008 Regina - Wascana Lake.

Re-purposing is a creative endeavour. It is so very easy to toss out our packaging. When we do it ends up in a land fill. White plastic bags float over our landscape, clinging to bushes or fences until another wind comes along. Recycling depots prevent a lot of this drift and litter. So many things can be made from those things we throw away without thinking. We best not throw out our best selves.

Re-purposing a lifetime career has it’s own creativity to it. That lifetime career may have been a parent whose children have flown the nest or it may have been a long term employment. At these times we are left to decide what to do next. A feeling of empty hands and hearts weighs heavy and threatens. 

Creativity to the rescue! Stepping out into the community, when a full community life has not been part of some career lives, is a challenge. It’s like the first day of school, but no one to tell you the rules. Teachers are friends, family and neighbours, and especially those that have gotten past elementary school.

In the creative challenge of re-purposing, self development starts at home and moves in the direction of your choice. Any edges of wear or cracks in the surface from the past life are merely battle scars that enhance the experience of upcoming events.

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs 
and developing our wings on the way down.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut, 
If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Advice for the Young