Yearning To Create

A few weeks ago, while sitting in Emergency waiting for my daughter to get stitches and thinking about an article that was due in a few hours, I realized I needed to cut back.  So I’ll be writing every second week instead of weekly.

I believe this will be my 70^th article for the Town & Country.  Granted, that’s not a lot compared to fulltime journalists but, believe it or not, writing a weekly column does takes a fair bit of time and creativity.

Sometimes I’m full of ideas but low on time.  Sometimes I have time but no ideas.  It seems as though I’m allotted a certain amount of creative juice per week and when I’ve used it up, it’s gone.

I especially noticed this while homeschooling, pregnant, and writing a column in Fort McMurray.  I had to quit the paper because all my creativity was, apparently, going into educating and gestating.

As much as I enjoy writing, I often feel the need create in other ways, like building block towers with my son, learning to compose, or catching up on seven years worth of scrapbooking.

My older sister is very crafty.  She has a blog (yearning to create) with this quote: "The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul." (Dieter F. Uchtdorf)  I think that’s true.  Everyone I know enjoys creating in some way – whether with words, paint, plants, fabric, yarn, wood, hair, furniture, or old cars – the desire is there.

Don’t fight the yearning.  Create.