2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 9

Prompt
When you see, do you? When you know, do you? When you listen, do you hear? Explore and create.

The Page Zone
Life begins, certified,
Mother_often_Father:
Name, weight, length,
Prints; fingers, hands,
Toes, feet – absence, presence,
Entrance – cries, Time, beginning,
Gathering days, years, reams
Expended in documentation,
Education, personal formation.

Creation – becomes a diversion,
Words like biscuit crumbs
Left by writers unlocking
Doors unknown until
Taken there, discovering life
Or some facsimile, opening
The verbal tendency which
Sudden makes prints as
Individual as taken at birth –
The voice a whisper escalating
Toward a scream with every
Stroke quoting self on what
Life shows: dreams, hope, visions,
Explanations of being, Love, meaning.

Cellphones, with inborn editing, allow me to change reality in lines at file.

Google gives those who partake, all-knowing. I often refuse to invoke the monster.

Sound is it, echoes, or just white-noise? I listen to the story while experiencing another story.

Gratitude List
I am thankful:
1. Sleep is not forever, but near enough.
2. Heroes.
3. Sometimes finding the vein.
4. Collecting.
5. What is worse, morphing to the acceptable.

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2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 7

OVERDUE NOTICE

To Whomsoever Concerned (Including Death aka Suicide):
I must hereby inform you and your designates; though you have over and again made desirable offers trying to almost effectually convince me to let go this mortal coil – I with due respect attest and affirm, I do now forcefully decline.

Life, as you have oft related, may be bleak and troublesome, prone to aches and pains which become acute, diseases that linger, and filled with various inconveniences at times. However, life offers days of opulent light and wondrous grace to woo me.

I am most unready to allow my hand the opportunity to hasten my appointment with such as you. I have found joys that sustain me and interests of which there are unending volumes to learn.

My body and mind at times forsake me, but I have concluded, although I cannot persuade them otherwise, to set moments aside and make considerations for my grasping at ideas or sluglike pace, so I am still productive in my ways.

Leave me now, you wiley beast; it is not yet my hour to be your feast.

Sometimes I have odd ideas, like the piece above. I also have superstitious thoughts that grill me with the idea of how such rambles tempt things to happen. I must trust that whatever comes is as will be.

The trunks pictured are of a Crepe Myrtle. I find the wood extremely beautiful. I also like the configurations.

Prompt:
Create something which challenges your sense of comfort. Share it with others.

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2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 6

Direct Lines

The chosen lines give
Indication and inclination
Future to reveal
Where lessons taught yesterday
Make the present stand to say
Whatever there may conceal
Though better given would be
In those rivers long run
Faithful to the abounding sea
Where eventual nets remain always
Forever thirsting inked free
All this too high and lofty
To discern in mediocrity
But maybe ascertained by hearts
Raging with just pure love
Dependent upon the Lord above
Who is to every seeking soul
Completely available in petition
Within His grace to be extolled
Setting captives sudden independent
Of stifling claims, doubt, which no longer
Serve to hinder purpose, instead
Building minds in creative thought,
Bodies becoming sound with lithe strength,
Calling treasures truth to speak.

Prompt:
If you sit with no concrete decision and allow your mind to wander, you may be surprised by what arises. If the well of who you are – thus inspires you, create.

Thankful List
I am grateful:
1. My mind.
2. My heart.
3. My love for others.
4. My dogs.
5. Being on my own.

I meant to write something about the photo; because my being short, I had extreme difficulty changing the bulb and returning the fixture, but I find I have no lines. I like the image, despite, so it is here.

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2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 5

NOTES on LEGACY

Legacy is the meditation of passing years when one considers the actions, relationships, results, the minutiae of ordinary and extraordinary days.

Lives are broom strokes clearing the dust. Buildings collapse, people come and go, knowledge passes from memory, sometimes everything seems slow, but dreams grow tenuous.

Incubating the children of creativity and imagination is the purpose life has given those artistically or literarily inclined. Masters create works of marvel to which dancing eyes are drawn and slow escape. Spinning stories, poems, treasured, repeated through ages is a gift of sages wearing authorial labels. The images – experiences of the present inform futures of which creators have only vague guesses.

The progeny we spawn, teach, love only retain the vaguest conception of us. Our accomplishments, victories, and dreams grow evermore meager in eyes who new wonders perceive. We are best set by making our works shiny and bold, letting majesty from each unfold if we seek to be more than moldering ruins in the grave.

Love shared with our principles and broader circles as we are able, expansive generosity, moments spent in joy together, and times we forget ourselves as present and seen. These are the honorable legacy that matters for every human being.

Prompt
Think about how you remember those you have lost in your life. Think of younger people you know. Perhaps create a work to memorialize someone or work about how you think you and your contemporaries will be remembered.

Tall Weed and Surrounds – © Jo Ann J. A. Jordan

Gratitude List
I am thankful:
1) I have been able to vegetate and recover over a few days.
2) Feeding the well.
3) Water.
4) Art supplies.
5) Inspirational books.

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2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 4

Hidden Words

The poem is in us
Lying dormant, a snake set to strike
With power and might
Ready, free to take our breath away
Enlighten us with visions, dreams
We allowed lapsing
Among the preoccupations
Of mundane days filled with stress,
Times we left ourselves leaderless.
The poem is in us
Crackling with hungry flames
To put our hearts, minds afire
Encourage us to grow, inquire
Into the methods which may
Lead us in a meaningful way
Steering us to share a greater love
Teaching others of the need
To carry out every good deed.
The poem is forever in us
Our mission is to search it out
Unleash it from its hiding place
Bringing it into open space
Guiding the world to share grace.

There are so many things here that remind me – Mom is gone. I miss her. She loved this giant heavy cement pig, and she even painted it, and I cannot move it.

I hope you are ready for the weekend. The Loverboy tune, “Working for the Weekend,” always comes to mind when I say that, but hey, rock ’em if you have ’em.

Prompt
Think about your form of expression and try to create something that gets to the soul of what you do and what it is.

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