Guest Author - Michelle Anne Cope

Did you reach for a dictionary? Type the word into Google? I almost did, but we don’t have to look. We know what it is. We are the very essence of creativity – it’s a human thing!

Creativity is not always a list of touchable things; creativity can be an intangible collection of ideas, thoughts, feelings, photographs, art, music and stories that “we” think, feel, hear and see in our mind’s ears and eyes. It’s also using all of our tangible senses to explore what is around us. What we smell, taste, touch, see and ear in our everyday lives. Creativity is for everyone!

What did you think it was? Were you under the very false impression that creativity was only for writers, musicians, photographers and artists? Wrong. Yes, they are creative individuals, and they do create beautiful stories, songs, pictures and multi-media works, but it’s not by chance. It’s by choice. The people that we often label as creative don’t have a secret or gift that we don’t have. They have simply decided to use their creativity.
Human beings are special. We have the most unique makeup of any species on this earth. We have a brain that has more capacity than we can or will ever use. We have imaginations and communication skills that allow us to dream the most ridiculous dreams and move the most stubborn mountains. Look around your house. Do you see your TV, your CD player, dishwasher . . . yes, these are innovative items, but they started with a creative idea. Watch a movie, a television show . . . yes they are produced programs with soundtracks and plots, but they started with a creative idea.

Ideas are free. They belong to humans, not robots or computers. The world revolves and grows around creative ideas. And . . . the best part is that creativity is never lost; it’s just so very often never found.

We have to be still for a few minutes so we can use all of our tangible and intangible senses to find our niche in the creativity community. This can mean trying new things, looking at old things in a new way, allowing ourselves to dream, love, learn, succeed, and sometimes fail. It means coloring the sky in a picture with an orange crayon instead of a blue one. It’s often about thinking like a child, or thinking like a giraffe.

That is what this site is about – creativity for everyone. It will be about learning all we can about ourselves and the life and legacies we want. This is our chance to find the secret about how to creatively live our lives and grant our own wishes.

Create and dream forever,
Chel