Great meeting last night. It was wonderful to hear how each of us unfolded our creative paths. More to come at the next meeting -- we have important and hilarious work to do. In the meantime I think you will enjoy this poem by Rumi who writes about exactly what we were discussing, it's called 'Unfold Your Myth'.

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?
Who comes to a spring thirsty
and sees the moon reflected in it?
Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age,
smells the shirt of his lost son
and can see again?
Who lets a bucket down and brings up
a flowing prophet? Or like Moses goes for fire
and finds what burns inside the sunrise?

Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies,
and opens a door to the other world.
Soloman cuts open a fish, and there’s a gold ring.
Omar storms in to kill the prophet
and leaves with blessings.
Chase a deer and end up everywhere!
An oyster opens his mouth to swallow on drop.
Now there’s a pearl.
A vagrant wanders empty ruins.
Suddenly he’s wealthy.

But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things
have gone with others. Unfold
your own myth, without complicated explanation,
so everyone will understand the passage,
We have opened you.

Start walking toward Shams. Your legs will get heavy
and tired. Then comes a moment
of feeling the wings you’ve grown,
lifting.


from The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

March 9 --- Show and Tell your creative project

Since our group is about the creative process, it would be fun to have a meeting where we focus directly on creativity in a personal, experiential way --- by talking about one of our favorite creative projects. It may be your first or biggest creative product or it could be a creative experience that transformed the way you think -- something concrete yet seminal to your life or in the way you think.

Talk about when it happened, how your saw your creation take form, the excitement of birthing something new and unique. Describe transforming raw materials into an artistic truth, molding working materials into what's seen in the imagination's eye.

Talk about the magic moment when your vision took form -- the gestalt from frustration to bliss. Do you remember that first moment that changed things, when you realized you can do it? Talk about it.

Bring the work that started it all, and hold it in front of the group as you speak. Could be a painting, a poem, a formula, an article, a book...

We get five minutes each, and go around the room to hear of first breakthroughs.

I can't wait to hear from you guys. Your creative gifts are incredible. My breakthrough changed me and set me on a wonderful, different path. I can't wait to hear about your magic moment.