What stoked your creative fire this year? What did your discipline enable you to achieve and/or create?
My creative blocks had been there for a long time, so long that the ivy tumbled down and almost covered the walls. For several years I paced and circled, looking for the entrance. My fingers traced along the outline of each brick. I tapped with my chisel. I searched for a weakness, any looseness or crumbling in the mortar.
Just when I started to grow truly tired of my own tentativeness, the tools I had with me were stripped away. It seemed completely impossible now, but I grew so wild in my solitude and desperation that I crouched down like a dog, sunk my hands into the Earth and began to dig.
And when I finally stood up, wet-faced and dripping, I was waist deep in the mud, realizing I could dig my way to the other side.
Both the prompt and the blog badge for today are via: http://yogafreedom2010.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/reverb11-starts-tomorrow/
Powerful post. The imagery of you finding your way back to your creative nature is wonderful. Keep digging.
Posted by: dragonfly | December 30, 2011 at 12:23 AM
I love that this acknowledges the magic in creativity AND the damn hard work!
Posted by: Abigail | January 04, 2012 at 09:00 AM
And you have done this. I have just witnessed it, in reading all these posts. It is a compelling achievement, truly remarkable.
Posted by: Kimsamsin | February 09, 2012 at 12:29 PM