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I missed class today because we're in Hawaii.  But, I was able to have a breakthrough in my thoughts about creativity.  Here it goes...

I was struggling with a metaphor for my creative process because I have a conflict.  I think of myself as being extremely imaginative, but "creating" things makes life messy and complicated.  I'm very intolerant of details and complexity, and I've spent a lot of time over the past few years cleaning up messes that were generated as a result of my actions around creative inspiration.  

What to do?

I realized this week that creativity for me is a process of discovery.  I merely uncover things that are already there, rather than creating them.  As a discoverer of things that are already there, I am not responsible for managing, organizing or dismantling them.  They have a life of their own.

Since I figured this out, I've felt much better about how life is going, and I'm feeling much more free to do things without constraining myself with expectations or responsibility.

My metaphor is the Laysan Albatross who soars high above the Pacific Ocean, following the unseen undersea ridges where cold water rises to the surface carrying krill for the Albatross to eat.

(Note: I took the photo of the Laysan Albatross nesting on the North Shore of Kauai.)