Meditating on creativity
I started meditating three days ago. I've always dabbled somewhat in it and been fascinated by it when I didn't meditate. Somehow I never made the time but I'm hopeful that this time, it will stick. I decided to make this change because recently, I've started realizing that somewhere along the way of life I lost the connection to my creative self. I'm hopeful that sitting quietly in meditation is at least part of the way back to wholeness. Since having my daughter a year and a half ago, the question of HOW to be in the world have become more urgent. Because, as I'm sure most people with children have discovered, being a parent is not just a one way transmission of knowledge from me to my child but it is a conversation between the two of us. While I am setting boundaries, giving her love, and teaching her about some concrete aspects of the world, she is simultaneously showing me new ways of seeing the world I had forgotten about or had never observed before. In