When I bought the sketchbook, I intended its pages for the drawing, a true sketch. A long-held dream, urged by a traumatic childhood memory. “Draw a tree,” said the art teacher. My ten-year-old self gathered a fat pencil and my Red Chief tablet, then followed my classmates outside. What a glorious assignment in early fall! …
What does it mean to call yourself a ‘creative?’ That you constantly come up with new ideas? That you begin a thought and then take a rabbit trail another direction? Or that your desk is always a mess? My definition of creativity involves two possibilities: For Jordan Raynor, author of Called to Create: a Biblical …
As a creative person and the leader of a group of creative writers, I’m always seeing the creativity around me. One of the places I’ve noticed an unusual amount of creativity is within my church. The Pianist: She adds notes to basic chords, filling them out so that they resonate with the melody, yet create …
We want to see our own dreams come to pass even if they don’t sync with the whispers of the divine.