“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.” Elizabeth Gilbert
Do you know what I mean by a creative glimmer?
It can feel quite ephemeral. The moment you try to focus on it properly, it disappears. But then it catches your eye again when you’re driving, walking the dog or standing in the shower.
It might be an idea. A colour. A book you keep picking up. A photograph you would love to take. A course you keep looking at. A person you think it would be brilliant to work with. Something that lights you up for a moment before your sensible mind barges in and tells you it is impractical, ridiculous or that you haven’t got time.
That’s a glimmer.
Creativity doesn’t always arrive as one enormous, fully formed idea. More often, it comes in tiny flashes. A little nudge. Something at the edge of your vision that keeps turning up and asking you to notice it.
Perhaps the glimmers are how creativity speaks to us. Tiny flashes of light, quietly showing us where there might be more life.
Writing prompt:
What keeps catching your attention? How do your creative glimmers tend to turn up in your life, and what might happen if you followed one of them?
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