Creative endeavors

Monday, January 8, 2007: from A Fancy Word for Simple

Day 8: Source of our Creative Spark?

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
-- Alice Walker

I would have to say that my mother and grandmothers handed down the creative spark, in ways that are easily identifiable. All of them encouraged me to play the piano, draw pictures, do crafts, make jewelry, bake cakes, all kinds of wonderfully creative and imaginative endeavors. My grandmothers never got to see my scrapbooks, but they would've loved to see them!