I have not touched this blog in quite some time. Â Not that I have nothing to write or nothing I desire to share with the world, but rather I am focused…. or at least somewhat focused. Â Focused on family. Work. Life.
Yet I desire to write. Â To share. Â To create. Â So here I am. Â Returning to this place. Â Maybe I will write weekly. Â Maybe monthly. Â No empty promises today, simply a revamping of the idea of blogging.
I am a sporadic person when it comes to creativity. Â Lately I have been working every spare moment on creating a space that will be conducive to creating. Â This is key to CREATIVITY. SPACE
Creating SPACE, allows for creativity to flow. Â I am married. Â I still say that I am recently married, since it has only been a year and a half. Â What a rollercoaster it has been. Â I guess the real rollercoaster of it all was diving into PARENTHOOD. Â Even more than marriage. Â I guess we didn’t really have time to adjust to marriage before the surprise of conceiving at the one month mark of marriage. Â We had to dive into life and grow up a little… hopefully not too much.
SPACE. Â Settling into a rhythm of life and creating space to create (maybe I will commit to weekly blowing…. just know that means some of them will ultimately suck – oh well.)
CREATIVE SPACE. Â I’ll add a couple photos of the garage / studio prject I have been working on…. maybe just one photo, we will see. Â BUT CREATIVITY is what I will be writing about. Â Attempting to tackle it to the ground and expound.
I lost my pops about 3.5 years ago. Â Yes it was traumatic and yes that is another blog for another day. Â But a thing about my pops was that HE was a creative and he thrived in the area of chaos. Â Yet this often became stressful for those closest to him out, he would often create a constant state of chaos…. yet I have found that there is a beautiful thing with perceived chaos, or urgency or the 9th hour – when there is no time left, we dive in creativity at a whole other level than in the midst of zero pressure. Â A few years back I did a photo a day project for a year. Â It was an act of creative discipline. Â Committing to the project forced me to shoot every single day. Â Ultimately it changed my photography and especially my ability to produce. Â I follow Casey Neistat on You Tube. Â He is an entrepreneur and a VLOGer. Â He posts a video a day!! Â and has quite a following. Â He started as a way to force himself to keep making movies…. in the midst of having less and less time he started doing this!!! Â The cost is like 2-6 hrs of video editing a day!!! Â what the crap?!?!? Â check it out and be inspired – Casey seems like a guanine guy too.
CREATIVITY.
I will be painting more and more.
I will have a workable creative space by the end of the month (ok maybe a little longer. Â I almost cut my fingers off the other day working on this space, that put a little dent in my timeline….and I need to keep the focus on loving my wife and baby as well)…. But I WILL have a workable creative space soon.
I WILL write more. Â Choosing CREATIVITY is like choosing LIFE. Â Time to kickstart and FOCUS on what is truly important. Â Maybe all this refocus stuff because of the break I was just on and the “clense” I just did. Â As the body is cleansed out and reset, so is the mind, and the heart.
God thank you for creativity. Â Thank you for Creating us in your IMAGE. Â In the Image of the CREATOR. Â May I be the CREATIVE son you call me to be. Â May I be more ME, each and every day.
(re-blog – randomness #1 complete – all we need now is at least one photo and we are in business)