CREATIVITY



Creativity is not efficient.

She has a different relationship to time than most of us.

A minute can last a day and a day can last an hour.

She loves all the seasons.

She is on intimate terms with the sun and the moon.

it is NEW YEARS all year long at her house, what with celebrations for the Celtic, Hebrew, Tibetan,Chinese, Japanese and other new years too numerous to mention.

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Some people consider Creativity selfish because she does what she wants.

I have always found her to be gracious and generous. She is certainly complex.

if you have only met her in a serene mood, her flair for drama may offend you.
She is not your aunt with the porcelain teapot who plays chamber music.

if you are one of those people who only go to see her when she is starring in a major melodrama you will not hear her rainsongs.

if you insist she is mad, you will never see how still her face is when she returns from a dream.

Sometimes Creativity disappears completely or wanders around the back alleys for weeks at a time.

She has a strong need to be occasionally anonymous.

if you run into her at the post office during one of these periods, you will probably not recognize her.

She is in a different place.

it is almost as if her blood has slowed down.

When the blank period is over, Creativity brings her free self home with her.
Her skin is anew.

She is ready to work.

More than anyone else, Creativity understands the Secret meanings of the months when nothing seems to get done.....



J. RUTH GENDLER....