It's Friday, and that means it's time for another "Joy Diet" moment.
This week we were working with creativity. Not in "how to be creative", but how to be creative in creating your desires. Remember last week when we were talking about desires?
Part of this week's exercises was to take polar opposites and remove the "or" and replace it with "and". Good or bad became good and bad, smart or stupid became smart and stupid. I think you get the point. This little "and" word with it's three letters is the most important part. Without the "and" you only have opposing opposites,almost impossible to reconcile. You are being torn in one direction or the other. With the "and" you have an infinite amount of gray zone. I believe it is the "and" which signifies the journey. For example, published author or non published author becomes published author and non published author. This little word holds the compassion and courage it takes to show up and write every day on the way to becoming published. I will never look at "and" as just a conjunction again because it is truly the word of allowing one's own journey to unfold. "And" has now become a word of courage, compassion,and the road traveled.
While on the "and" road I started some of the other exercises to discover this week's creativity which pertained to last weeks desires. The first one is to show up every day and ask yourself a different "How" question and as many of it's possible solutions. There comes a point where you are to ask three very different people their thoughts and solutions on your "How" question. Coming from my desires list of last week ,I asked, "How to share with more children who want to read and love books?" I asked a neighbor, the lovely old man at the dry cleaners, and a little voice with a lot of ideas, my son little "O". I'm so glad I asked him. "Mom", he said. "Use Jump Into A Book". Instead of posting the books we are currently reading and jumping into, you could put all of the notebooks of adventures we have taken so that kids can jump into books just like we do. Out of the mouth of babes. With this, our creative juices started rolling. An evening was spent in front of the fire, notebooks out and writing,modifications on laptop, tea and cookies shared and a sleeping cat between us, I believe a dream is born with many to journey on it.
We already have the Jump Into A Book sight, which chronicles are book reading endeavors etc. We haven't been as active as we had hoped due to living but with a clear and inspired plan, I think "things are a changin." To discover what is Jump into a Book have a look here, for all other book moments have a look here.
Happy Friday and have a great weekend.
