Recently I've been revisiting the On Being interview with John O'Donohue. Listening to it in the middle of the night when I can't sleep.
He says,
"I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist."
Today looking through an old sketchbook I found a quote I'd copied by Madeleine L'Engle (pretty sure I found it here):
"But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint or clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living."
Not sure if I've ever shared this but I chose my blog name as a bit of a play on words. Deborah, from a Hebrew word meaning "the bee," + creative...
A prompt and reminder for myself.