‘ And the image is still burned in my mind. I would sit-like I’d pick a plant out in the middle of the field and I would say, ‘This is my favorite one.’ And it would look like all the others but I would think, ‘I’m paying attention to this one. Yes, I spent a lot of time alone outside, just looking. So observation is one way that I practice creativity. Even if I’ve seen it a hundred times, I’ve never seen it quite like that before and these images become really important to me in my life. We just want these images burned in their minds, and I need them in mine. We just want our girls to see what it looks like when water goes down a stream and when a leaf floats in the water.

We spend time outside, hiking and taking camping trips.

We surround ourselves and participate in nature. Whenever we visit somewhere new it’s like, ‘do we like this city?’ ‘I don’t know, let’s go to the art museum and find out.’ I’m like a creativity vampire, I just suck it in and love to consume it.Īnd the other one is nature. They don’t even understand everything that Shakespeare does, but they laughed and they got scared and they understood enough, and they’re getting enough exposure that it won’t scare them later when they try to dive in.Īrt is kind of our measure of how much we like a city. We spent last Thursday taking our girls to the art museum and then to Shakespeare in the park. The way we do that is we have a mutual passion for art. Not full reign, and we don’t reign it in too much, but we give it the correct channel I think. It’s just that we give creativity a place in our life.

I needed an adventurous mind, someone who would dream with me, but I also consider us really practical people. If he’d been somebody too pragmatic it wouldn’t work. Oh yes, I knew that he had ideas in his head and he wanted to let them blossom and he wanted to let my mind blossom, and this was just kind of a mutual decision. I think it shows in my choice to marry an artist and someone who would help me in my quest to make creativity a big part of family life.ĭid you realize when you met your husband how important his creativity would be for your relationship? So that’s a really strong force in my life. Tell me a little about what creativity means in your life, even above and beyond writing When I first went to your house it was easy to see that you are the type of person who exudes creativity in so many aspects of life.

On Little Wings by Regina Sirois