Normal is Not Bad

There is something relaxing and functional about routine. As human beings, and I make an assumption that most of you reading this qualify as human beings, we have a tendency to build personal routines and structures. Those structures and routines get built to encompass our jobs, chores, friends, routes, and - unfortunately - relationships. We push all of our daily life into the "box". It is hard, and it is frightening, to step outside of our routines. After all - that is stepping into virgin territory and that territory might be firm ground or it might be quicksand. But that is the territory that creative thinking comes from. That is the territory that the creative and/or artistic person tries to operate from. Walking off that path or out of that box is essential to the creative life. However, be very aware that going from your "box" into new territories can also build new pathways that then become an actual part of your comfort zone - your box, your routine. Then you have to recognize those new boundaries step off the path at a new juncture.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, since I'm trying to get inventory together for sale and want a unified look, right now my box walls are firmly in place and my feet are going off the path in very small steps only. The only new path that I have been exploring has been that fountain that I mentioned a day or so ago. I'm not too sure that it will work as a fountain - a bit larger than my usual projects and I don't have the long-term time to be able to devote to a larger project right now. But there are some aspects of that mental project that might be worth exploring on a smaller and more portable scale. Hmmmmm....I'm going to try and walk a new path with this tendril of an idea. Why don't you try to also push past the edges of your creative path into some new areas today and see what new paths you can start to create.