In one of my earlier posts I started talking about creation and how it’s important to me. So I wound up digging up some odd pieces of lumber i had left from previous projects. And took it upon myself to create something out of nothing. Remember- I asked what would you have made out of the lumber?
Since I’ve been reading a lot of books on Transformation… I decided the best thing to make was a bookshelf to store them in. The following picture shows how far I had come on the project last time I worked on it. Today I spent most of the day staining it. Sanding, staining and finishing is the part I don’t particularly care for. Part of it is because I don’t have a shop to create stuff in- it’s all done outside. Otherwise I wouldn’t mind so much this last step of the finishing process.
shelf
stained, finished and waxed...
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Something out of nothing…
I’m someone who always thought that going through a personal transformation was supposed to be just that: Personal. I would have never open up the way you have on this blog and risk the world see my wounded places, weaknesses and fears… You however, have shown me differently. Your blog has helped me feel less isolated, less awkward, less adrift. Not sure how it all will work out for me yet, but I know that the key component I am missing is the Creative process. Allowing my creativity to flow and take over without attachment to the end result is the freedom I need to experience for myself. So I don’t know exactly what is it that I would have made out of the lumber -metaphorically speaking-, because the fear of failing has kept me from even trying… The feeling of ending empty handed is so painful, that it has kept me from allowing myself to believe that I can create again. In reality though, we can’t help but to create. I think I now know the difference between creating consciously vs. creating unconsciously. I owe it to myself to try again. And try with excitement and joyous abandonment