Bev made these bottle top ladybirds during the first lockdown of 2020. She sent them to people in the post, and gave them a home in her garden, on fences and flower pots. And although they have faded since then, having been battered by the weather, they are immortalised in a Clear Thinking Card.
Turning the calendar over on the first day of a new month and our prompt is to be creative.
In seeking a suitable definition for what it means to be creative, we’ve settled on three words, for now at least:
Original | Different | Daring
Being original requires independent thinking, using our limitless imagination to dream up something new and fresh. Often it means letting ourselves be inspired by the world around us, or challenging it, being in direct opposition so that the resistance we create causes something to emerge for the first time.
Being different requires a disregard for fitting in and conformity. There’s a certain level of bravery needed to be truly different in a world where it is so easy to be ‘cancelled’ by people we neither know nor care about.
Being daring requires us to go to the edge, where it’s a bit scary and maybe even dangerous. To seek adventure, be *venturesome, be ‘audaciously bold.’ Audaciously bold sounds really lovely, doesn’t it. What if we made March the month where we emerge from our winter and we concern ourselves with being ‘audaciously bold?’
An invitation: As you throw open the curtains on a new month, if you were to embrace what it means to be creative in the 31 days you have ahead of you, what might be possible? What could you cause? What could exist at that end of that time, that doesn’t exist now? Let’s see…..
*Credit to Ricky Locke for using that word with us recently
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