Create every day

Liewe Leser

My ma het geglo dat ‘n mens elke dag iets kreatief moet
doen – dat dit die beste teenvoeter vir enige depres-siewe gedagte is. Sy het dikwels die woord by die daad gevoeg: Toe ons klein was, was dit macramé en decoupage wat sy aangepak het.
Later was dit tuinmaak en uitrustings uit lap optower. Ek glo vas ‘n mens moet die eentonigheid van kantoorwerk breek met ‘n kreatiewe aktiwiteit – iets wat jou stimuleer en sommer net oemf gee. Probeer gerus jou eie groentetuin, plant ‘n boom, verf ‘n ou kas nuut of versier ‘n koek. Die moontlikhede is legio. Moenie toelaat dat jou kreatiwiteit aan bande gelê word nie.

Ek was nog altyd mal daaroor om rond te dwaal deur ‘n oulike plaaslike mark, om hier te snuffel en daar te krap. Wanneer ons handgemaakte items koop, verseker ons ’n volhoubare bedryf vir die produsente en word die vaardighede lewend gehou. So vier ons ook ons menswees – ons is immers mens en nie masjien nie. Dit was vir my wonderlik om te sien hoe groot afdelingswinkels deesdae ‘n ruimte skep waar plaaslike handgemaakte items verkoop word. Viva handgemaak!

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Dear Reader

Mom believed that one should do something creative every day and that creativity is the best antidote to feeling down. She often set a good example: When we were small (and Christmas trees were tall) she did macramé and decoupage.
Later gardening and fabric fantasies took over.
I firmly agree that we should alternate the monotony of office life with a creative activity – something to stimulate us and add some oomph. How about trying your own veggie garden, planting a tree, painting an old chest of drawers or icing a cake? The possibilities are endless. Don’t allow your creativity to be stifled.

“Create! Create!
I feel the winds of fury
Blowing through me.
Even my bones are smiling.
I hear my veins pulsing with
Desire, like branches
Dancing in the breezes.
Wildflowers are waving and
The ocean blossoms with a new idea.
Crazy and beautiful is
How I want my life to feel.”

(Extract from the poem Orange Energy in the healingbrave.com blog).

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KEEP IN MIND:
“He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and weavers - all of them skilled workers and designers.” (Exodus 35:35) (NIV).


Gerty Basson