Filling My Creative Well

In The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, Cameron says a person can’t be creative if they don’t feed their creativity.  She likens creativity to a lake or a well, which an artist must periodically refill lest it become dry.  In order to refill the well, Cameron suggests people who want to be creative take their inner artist on a date. She suggests we spend alone time noticing the beauty around us. Hiking through the woods is a way that I often refill my well of creativity.  When I see God’s creation: the rich carpet of green moss, the delicate yellows of a mushroom, the pale pink of a bud I am inspired with wonder.
  But Cameron said that some artist dates should be purely fun. We should try to capture some of the freedom and unfettered joy of childhood.  So, I took my “artist child” ice skating.  But, not just regular ice skating .  When my “artist child” pictured ice skating in her mind she imagined graceful young women in flowing costumes skating to soaring music.  So, that’s what I did.  I put on my floatiest skirt, my ice skates, my ipod and I ice danced in the bright sunshine.