9/19/2017 0 Comments When It RainsSome call this Divine Providence, The Law of Attraction, or even The Secret. Last night I was looking at a rather nebulous thought on writing what it means to be creative and a mother--wisps of ideas like: it is not binary or dual, they go hand-in-hand, and others floated by. The most cumulous one involved something about how they are both influenced by the need you had to create before babies and what that looked like. Regardless, I let the ideas float away until this morning, right now, on a chilly gray September morning where an article from The Atlantic offers an explanation of "How Motherhood Affects Creativity." Like the water cycle the drops of evaporation rise and the cloud returns, dripping on my head like persistent raindrops until I write it down or get out an umbrella and let it slip away. This is what my creativity has always looked like--an inkling, an inspiration that drives me to do, to make, to write, unless I don't. My art isn't driven by what I should do but by how powerful the urge is to do it. After Z & X were born, I wrote two of my favorite pieces, but they are so precious to me, I don't know when or if I will ever share them. Z's I wrote while rocking and nursing her. X's I wrote in the wee hours of some sleepless night. But, as I read this article it seems artists get shamed by the art world while mother's get shamed by the mother world. All I can imagine is Frida Kahlo's Henry Ford Hospital and Pablo Picasso's Maternity and where their inspirations for these works came from. Anna Abraham a professor who studies the neuroscience of creativity, "Knows that fostering creativity often involves changing how you look at the world." Becoming a parent, or not, does that. Either way, your life is different than it was before whether you had the choice or not. Absolutely being a mother influences my creativity, and admittedly, I criticize myself that perhaps my themes seem simple in comparison with those I read, but for now these are my droplets and the pools they become. So, Z & X, I want you to know as I watch your own inspiration come in fort improvisations or artistic representations, creativity, in whatever form, is nothing more than one's perspective frozen for others to observe, and they will always look into that icy globe from their own place. Don't let the world define you--fill your hands and pour them out again when they overflow, but don't forget to just keep some for yourself to hydrate the moments that mysterious universe has sent your way.
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S.M.(M).L.A farm girl, a lake girl, a nature girl raising sweet babies to be kind humans takes a lot of patience. Writing about the day-to-day brings the clarity it takes. This is that. Share your story if you can relate. Archives
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