Can you be creative?

Sometimes we think that we are not creative; that the gift has passed us by. But we have each…

Here are two examples of people answering their call to find an outlet for unhampered and unlimited creativity that you might not have heard of.

During World War l, a brilliant Austrian-American piano virtuoso was wounded and his right arm amputated. His musical career seems to be at an end.

(Maurice Ravel actually wrote his Piano Concerto for Left Hand for him, as did other composers.)

A second inspiring example is Colleen Darby, an artist-in-residence on an oncology floor, who helped patients find creative outlets to pass the time.

One day, she exchanged an innocent pleasantry with a patient, stating that it was a beautiful day outside. The patient replied, “It always looks the same from here.”

That exchange sparked her creativity with the realization that “every patient deserves a room with a view.”

So in 2013, she did a Kickstarter campaign that resulted in her creating LandEscapes–painting with a purpose to take otherwise cold and sterile hospital environments and create large, beautiful collages that combined natural images and words.

The spiritual, physical, and intellectual expressions of who we are has the potential to motivate and inspire others.

Creativity can be our impetus to a journey of discovery. It is our human nature to seek out and fulfill our desire to express and be more.

There are

• cures to be discovered,
• books to be written,
• worthwhile causes to be created.

And no, it doesn’t need Calvin’s last-minute panic!

Just willingness, receptivity (and, perhaps a little excitement?)