Creativity 3

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. The simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
--Charles Mingus, jazz musician/composer/conductor.


Creativity.

I believe we all have it.

For some, it is like their shoe size: wide and long.

For some, it is like their arm span: wide-reaching.

For others, it is like their heart: deeply hidden yet full of delight... if someone would only care to tap into that wellspring of life.

For all of us, creativity is like garden soil that offers a productive medium... when cultivated and watered and fertilized and spoken to lovingly! Cultivating yours? Talking nicely to yourself...and to others?

Some folks believe that creativity must be weird (as Charles Mingus rants, above.) Certainly James Joyce, whose seminal work, ULYSSES, which has been deemed unreadable by many critics, epitomizes that. Here's a quote from that work:

“Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.” 

Can you figger what James Joyce is talking about? Or, has he driven you loony? Let me know what you think.