I was watching Office Space (one of the best movies ever) last night. It's a movie I pop-in every few months to remind myself never ever ever ever ever work an office job again. My experience at Great Waste of Life (more commonly known as 'Great West Life') was freakishly similar. Anyways, I got to the part where he was talking about the question 'if you had a million dollars, what would you do?' I actually stopped and asked myself the same question. My answer was simple and didn't surprise me. I would be creative all day, every day.
I don't know what it is about my family but we are all artists. I'm sure it seeps down from my Grandma and Grandpa Cattani...the most wonderfully creative people I've known. However, my sister, my brother and myself are artists in so many areas and each in different ways. Growing up I was in art classes, theater, choir, English and was an active poet for our school poetry zine 'Semi-fluid'. What hit me the other day was that I don't have the same opportunities anymore and it's easy to let all of that creativity slip away. There are times when I have so many ideas floating around in my crazy head but I have neither the time, energy or resources to see them flourish. It is frustrating.
A few weeks ago I started sketching again. It felt so good to finally sit down and express myself through some artwork. Since then I've been trying to become more intentional in taking time for myself to be creative. On days where I've worked on a sketch, made cards, painted, or worked on various other projects that I have on the go I know that I'm happier and vibrant. When you're a busy mom it's easy to forget who you are and what you loved doing before kids. When I take time for myself to do the things that I love I know that I'm a better mom, wife and person. With that all said, I've decided to continue my blog in hopes that it can be another outlet of creativity. Enjoy.
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Hi Bria, I didn't know you had a blog too. Cool. Now we can gossip behind James' back.
First, I agree that Office Space is one of the best movies ever. The other week I mentioned it to some people at Prov and they said they had never even heard of it! I couldn't believe it. I will have to get them to fill out some TPS reports by Friday.
I liked what you said about creativity. I think you should definately keep on sketching and painting, I wish I could draw like you do. But I'm such a right-brained person that when I had to draw in elementary school I used a ruler to draw everything! True story, it was all angular straight lines. I guess I could draw a stick real well.
I also started my blog as an outlet of creativity. I was finding I had all these thoughts, mostly about God and about music, that I wanted to write down just so I could get them all out of my head, just so I could organize them and make sense of them. I don't use my blog as a way to stay in touch, I just sort of write like I would in a journal, but I write to an audience instead of to myself. So, yeah, long story short keep on blogging and painting and drawing!
P.S. tell James thanks for the CD
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