It's funny when you find your inspiration from your 8 year old daughter. Makes you question your own sense of creativity, but I was quite taken by something daughter no 1 said yesterday.
We were driving along in the car, as she piped up from the back, "The sky is so blue and fresh, it looks like it's just come out of the washing machine."
Beautiful.
I guess it's the sort of thing I encourage my students to come up with in our creative writing sessions. So simple, yet says so much.
If my eight year old can do it - sure as hell, so can I!
As I was considering the freedom of being able to write about anything I wanted and 'letting it flow,' I guess similar images were conjured in my mind. I saw an article recently about an artist who draws beautiful designs in a newly washed beach, spending hours to create something incredible, only for it to be washed away again by the next tide.
http://www.viralnova.com/beach-art/
That beach, that 'clean page' is where I am now, yet feeling inspired to turn it into something beautiful with my own hand. And this is my space and this is my time.
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