what a beautiful essay! i think of creativity as a form of birth. we are making a part of ourself to share with the world, to interact and challenge peoples ideas about who we are and what we think and feel. we leave our mark in the form of art, music, or even a meme.

i like to juxtapose this against my genealogy, where some of my relatives commonly left no trace. no record of birth or death, they lived and died without leaving much of a trace. simple farmers, yet their legacy was in their children, and the generations that followed.

we each make our own impact on the earth. how we do this is thru the conduit of creativity; through words, actions, interaction anhd response to the world around us.