Look For The Magic

Life is all about the mundane, but I need more. More than cooking, cleaning, and other repetitive stuff that is never really finished. I don’t just want my pie, I want it with an interesting crust and extra sweet filling.

Without that I wither. It’s the reason I have always tried out the odd little things like dream groups and drumming. It’s also the reason my children grew up without a lot of television and vacations without any outside influences. I wanted them to develop their own sense of creativity minus all the hype that is blown out of media machines twenty four hours a day. I wanted them to be thinkers and doers, not just watchers.

That being said, now that they are grown, they use these technical things to express themselves and I think that is great. It is the word, using, that is important to me. Active participation requires more than button pushing.

Imagination! It fills all sorts of gaps from writing and serving people to being an attorney in court. Thinking creatively opens lots of doors. I want the big doors and the small ones. I want doors that require eating biscuits that say, “eat me” as well as ones that require figuring out the puzzles that unlock them.

I want a world where the best and the worst come together and the best always wins in some way. That takes creativity. I try to stay current with today’s gizmos in order to keep my mind pliable, but I don’t discount my old friend, day dreaming. She still serves me well when I look for the magic.