Creativity takes us to places we did not plan to go.....places inside ourselves, places where we get lost and where we do not have control. Places where we take risks and find out we can do things we didn't know we could do are waiting there. We discover places that explore our deeper self, a higher and better self. Most of all, when we take the scenic route, we meet each other and find companions of this adventurous creative journey. Many times this creative journey has warned me against adapting to a situation or circumstance that numbs the pain of life and comfortably shields me from the pain of others. I do not wish to adapt....but to explore and adventure. I wish to create, even when fear takes me to the edge of being fully alive. In a novel, The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields she identifies what happens when we adapt too well and get too comfortable. "The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, or rehearsals." What are we waiting for?