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Sept. 18, 2007 |
Daily Soul Retreat at SoulfulLiving.com |
Vol. I, Issue 236 |
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Explore, Express, Imagine
by Dana Reynolds
 The world of creativity is a natural place for small children to inhabit. The next time you are in a park observe the way the toddler explores the playground. Notice the way she engages all her senses as she spies a bright red leaf blowing across the grass, chasing it laughing with delight. Soon she catches it, touching it eagerly while turning it over in her small chubby hands to examine its texture and appearance. She sniffs its curly edge and then gently licks it to see what it might taste like, before letting it go to watch it catch the autumn breeze signaling the game to begin again.
The toddler’s sensual exploration of the world is the doorway to creativity. Children can help us to remember what it felt like to be bold and unafraid to explore the unknown. The innocence of the child, the purity of heart, and the uncontaminated sense of wonder of the child’s imagination are key ingredients to creativity. Perhaps a way for us, as adults, to recapture our innate creative spirits is to observe children at play.
Several years ago I taught a series of Saturday morning experiential art/craft classes, Explore. . . Express. . . Imagine, for parents and their children at a local art gallery. The concept was to bring children and parents together, propose a creative challenge to explore, provide a variety of materials to experiment with, and make a place for their imaginations to co-create together. The metamorphosis that occurred for the parents from the first class to the last was astounding.
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Copyright Dana Reynolds. This article was originally
published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in Nov.
2001, as part of Soulful Living's "Family & Community" Issue.
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"Children are wonderful guides to remembering. To protect and nourish our children’s creative spirits we must remember ourselves what it felt like to squish fingers into wet dirt to make mud pies. We must reclaim the excitement of letting go of a red balloon only to watch it disappear in the bright blue sky."
--Dana Reynolds |
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