Gardening? I love it. Gardening, beading, collage. Painting. Dog-related pursuits. (Used to mush sled dogs ---for fun only)
~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce
There are a lot of people who have not been "turned on" to being creative and productive as a hobby... I think the human brain is naturally attracted to it, and once you start you have endless fodder for your imagination and aspirations, but there are lots of those who have simply never had that part of their brain stimulated, so tend to occupy themselves with passive entertainment instead... which is endlessly offered to us, and easily accessible. Once he gets turned on to something creative to do, it's likely it will lead to another and another and another craft. People are always commenting on the number of things I know how to do, but I have a feeling all of us here are similarly multi-talented, and yet at the same time feel like there's SO much we haven't had time to do yet!
-Kalera
Mike had many interests, he just isn't very interested in computers, and I do the surfing for the family. He simply couldn't do much of what he'd been able to do before being off work so I was wanting to find something new and different to tempt him.
No, he's very focused and active but if he doesn't know about something new someone has to point the way sometimes. He spent most of his days teaching and his evenings trying to relax from the stress, as he teaches in a very tough, deprived neighborhood and also had the responsibility of a lot of pastoral care for a good section of his school, so he didn't have much mental energy to find new things.
I looked for something for him, because I love him and knew that if he didn't have something to fill the void that had suddenly opened when he was put on sick leave that he'd go nuts.
-Su
You bet. At some points in my life I felt my energys were so scattered by all the things I wanted to do that I wasnt taking time to get really good at any one thing. I didnt cut things out deliberately but some things did fall by the wayside naturally. I thought, until recently, that quilts and polyclay were going to be the ones I would stick with till I was old. Now there is beads, and beading, and weaving and drooling and.... Anyway... thats what I have learned about this group, many multifaceted creators, many talents in many creative directions. I am not alone. Or unique. :-( ... heehee.. its good to be another kind of unique.. Diana
I think maybe I am an enthusiast in my areas of interest, and am always looking for a fire to start. Maybe I just look for people to take an interest in things so much that I never look for an interest for people. LOL
Tina
Is he a linear thinker? I guess that would account for not branching out to new things, and also account for this right-brainer (me), finding it unusual. And I suppose my son is something like that too. He also is a teacher, currently working in Job Corp; and with Peace Corp and lots of coaching in his background.
It's serendipity how the beads and talent for making them, and a wife who love beads all came together. Done good.
Tina
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