Just stuff

Today is a day to wrap my brain around the fact that I'm basically without structure in my day.  (Hence making potato soup for a friend who just had surgery at 7 in the morning!)  I think I understand why kids need it to feel secure!  So...let's see how I stand in the "grown-up" category!  

Speaking of kids, I love how they just flow with the ideas at a young age.  I wonder about the "how and why" of caring what others think of your work.  I want to make my time with them a safe place to experiment.  I do need them to do certain things a certain way sometimes so they can get on to the next level.  I guess it's improving their "data base" so they can have multiple ways of solving a problem or getting a specific outcome for their imaginative vision.  Back to the definition of creativity...

It's the kids that have the courage to swim upstream against the opinions of the others that I really want to nurture and encourage to do more.  The "others" are the ones I want to encourage to change the way they view things and get their minds out of the crayon box!