| type="text/javascript"> | | | | Creativity is lifeblood to all of us, whatever form it |
| One of my favourite films is Field of Dreams starring | | | | takes, including building a home, nurturing a child or |
| Kevin Costner. In it, he plays a struggling farmer who | | | | cooking a delicious meal. We are created by a creator |
| follows otherworldly inspiration and builds a baseball | | | | to be creative. Jungian psychologist Clarissa Pinkola |
| pitch on his corn field because, he is told, "If you build it | | | | Estes says creativity requires us to be wild. That |
| they will come". And you know what? They do, but | | | | means we must be prepared to look a little stupid in |
| not before everyone around him thinks he's gone | | | | front of others, to not censor ourselves, to be brave |
| completely mad. | | | | enough to experiment. In a lovely touch of |
| The thing is, he honours his creative inspiration, he | | | | synchronicity, I was listening to a brilliant song by Elbow |
| makes the space into which his dream can grow and | | | | as I was preparing to write and some of the lyrics |
| manifest, despite his friends, family and colleagues | | | | leapt out at me as illustrating this idea perfectly - "It's |
| telling him he's lost the plot and it'll never work. For | | | | silly wrong but vivid right." How accurate! If no one |
| many of us, this is the hurdle at which our own dreams | | | | risked doing anything because it might make them look |
| fall and all those stories never get written, the images | | | | foolish in other people's eyes, how dull, flat and |
| don't get committed to paper or canvas and soul | | | | colourless life would be. |
| songs remain unsung. | | | | |