Creating

By: Duke Rohe  drohe@att.net

What a wonderful thing to do.  For it takes what never was and makes it new for you.  It’s using the mind in a different way.  It’s looking at life in a new light.  Creating is not hard; it’s fun.  It destroys what you believe you can’t do and generates what you can.  Creating is a lost art form to the fearful.  For they think they have to be a De Vinci, when all they have to be is child-like.  Creating enjoys the element of sole authorship.  Even creating a mess can be art, for who else can make it exactly like you.  Creating must be manifested for its benefit to be enjoyed by others.

Creating transforms.  It takes a principle and turns it into application.  It takes a runaway thought and places it on paper.  It takes a blank canvas and turns it into a wonder to the observer.  It’s an expression of you.  Creating generates energy.  It sparks endorphins of youth inside that exclaim, “look what I did!”  Its accomplishment is the invitation to do more.  Creating creates because it can.  It sees what can be and works toward it.  There is no loss in creating, for its endpoint is when it thinks it’s finished.  Creating is reckless abandonment to the rules set by someone else.  It creates its own as it goes.

Controlled creating is an accepted passage into adulthood, but it’s really loss of a necessary ongrowing part of childhood.  Creating is more about discovering one’s limits.  It adds color to an otherwise normal life.  Creating is risking disapproval and humiliation, yet who cares if it’s your best.  Creating is the pulse of life that few find.  It’s inside waiting to come out, if we let it out.  The greatest creating is that which gives to others something they never had before.  Creating starts in the heart and ends as art.  And its signature is that it’s totally yours.  To discover more, create more.