Living Out Loud

Creative Inspiration is Contagious! Yep it is and that’s why I bought this crazy book – which is to help fuel my creative life! I often go through spurts have uncreativeness (I know that’s not a word but you get my point) and I thought maybe it could give me some kind of push when I run into those times.

I love the first few pages about finding true passion – I know that Jesus is my passion and reason to live – so I understand my true passion – I just need a way to vent my creative needs – to put on paper/visually what I’m feeling, thinking, going through.

It suggests looking back at how you “played” when you were younger – what were you excited about, spent hours doing and loved when you were little? For me that was a few different things – reading, playing “house”, building forts and rearranging furniture, exploring in the woods and day dreaming about the future.

I was definitely a child who loved to take 20 books to bed and read for hours! My mom would read to me before bed and I think that’s where it all started – later I would read to her and now at 25 I can’t get to sleep without at least reading one chapter from whatever novel I’ve got going. I love to go into bookstores and just read the titles from books, to look at all the different books – crafts, cooking, gardening, traveling, fiction and non-fiction. My favourite type of books are ones I can lose myself in – like I’m experience what the characters are – living in the westerns or traveling – takes me outside of my home to places I can only dream of going and experiencing.

I know a lot of little girls loved to play house – but I LOVED it! I had the little stove and fridge and table and chairs – all the plastic food and dishes! I would go through a day of all the “daily” things one would do as a stay at home mom – of course one of my many dolls was my baby. I loved that feeling of being at home and I still do. I love to look after my home – cleaning, decorating, and cooking – all that makes my house my home. I love to look after my husband in our home and look forward to the day of looking after our children and grand children in our home – wherever that may be.

Many afternoons were spent with me “exploring” the wooded areas behind mom and dad’s house when I was little. I loved to find that “perfect” place to put a clubhouse or fort. To find those secluded hideaways from everyone else – something for me alone. To this day when we drive by a wooded area with rocks and hills and valleys I dream about being able to explore through them!

The perfect day when I was little usually included lying out in the sun looking up at the puffy white clouds and seeing the pictures they would make. I loved to see the bunnies or dragons that the clouds would make and I still do this! I love to day dream about what life has in plan for me – what will happen to me over the next few years – I use to picture what my house would look like, where I would work, live, who I would marry, what my children would look like.

Living Out Loud suggests getting back to this – but I realized I’m not far from still “playing” like I use to – I think I just have to view it more like “play time” then what I have to do! I need to have fun with the things I am doing on a daily basis – and yes perhaps add a bit of added fun every now and then! Back to playing!