On Saturday, December 5th my very good friend Carman, Lena and I will be hosting a gathering of women for a Women's Spiritual Renewal and Meditation. It will be a great event with lots of exciting opportunities. Carman will be presenting a session on Creating a Sacred Space and I will be presenting a session on the Magic of Creativity. There will also be body therapies available, Massage Therapy, Reiki, Reflexology. We will have a meet and great morning session and closing meditation as well. It will be fun for all who will attend.
In March of 2008 I started a not-for-profit The Third Place. The place where you can go and honor your creative spirit. It's not an actual place, or in a specific location, per se. It's anyplace where we can find our creative spirit and put it into action.
Putting something together like this has been a challenge, since I have a full time job, a mortgage payment and a husband. But I am devoted to making this endeavor work. So my first talk on Saturday, the 5th will be my inauguration into sharing my experience and joy in working the creative. I have conducted knittng classes and facilitated New Years Eve collage sessions, but this will be my first formal entry into the celebration of the creative self. And as always with the fear of new things, I hope everybody is interested and nobody is interested, if you know what I mean. I often felt this way when I first started singing. I hoped that no one was listening and everyone was listening. I wanted to sing but I didn't want to sing. All nervous and no nerve. I do know, though that I will do my best. This has always been the case.
Creativity is so expansive and permeates every fiber of our lives. We seem to be so unhappy or disatisfied these days, with the economics and unrest in our world. There is no better remedy than to take that anxious energy and manifest it into making something beautiful, expressive and meaniful, if just to our own selves. Creative works have a great deal of power; they fulfill the soul. Creativity is truly our manna from the heavens, it is our soul food.
My journey has been somewhat extreme. I have explored so much, and thought that I would do so many different things and yet I still haven't come to that place where I can say without a doubt I have made it; I am completely fulfilled. In fact I doubt that I will ever say that. My life is in constant motion. There is not too much to learn or experience. But what I do know is that I want for the rest of my journey to be all creative. That everything I do from this point forward is from my creative spirit and a manifestation of my divinty. Without judgement, without concern for acceptance and with reckless abandon.
