Creativity doesn't mean being "weird"!

Artists, writers, actors, passionate creative souls are often portrayed as a little weird, a bit crazy, unpredictably passionate. That always makes me smile when I go to art in the park in Boise and see all the different forms of creative souls....kids finger painting, photographers with their year's work under glass, painters, crafters, potters, jewelry designers, weavers and Mom and Pop vendors carving wooden figures or metal sculptors making something with nuts and bolts. They look pretty "normal" to me! When the creative soul makes peace with self-rejection it creates a bridge to his/her innate gifts. Shared expressions and passions become a gift to the world. The idea of self-rejection comes from feeling we just aren't good enough....we aren't perfect....we have no right to share our flawed talent. We have trouble as sensitive hearts forgiving ourselves for what we wish to be perhaps? When we get over ourselves.....and let our passions flow, forgive ourselves for not being perfect.....we are free to create and claim our birthright. Telling ourselves we aren't enough is like saying the color red is not red enough, blue is not blue enough....how silly. We are enough as we are created.....just the right form, color and texture....waiting to use our creativity to make the world a more diverse, colorful and interesting place.