outside the box

we all have that yearning, and that itch visits us once in a while.  what we do with it, is totally up to us.

yesterday, i worked (make it 'played') with a group of enthused friends from naga city.  Bang organized the art trip/retreat, and invited fr. Jerome to be with the group, to make art.  

and as it happened, our group, burikbutikan, was to have a meeting, so OsacnaB, Frank, Al, Cesar, Julius, Jof and Paulix, were there, too.  of course i do not wonder, i know how it ever happens that all the creative energies can be in one place at one time!  i so believe in this:  i attract like energies!  bwahahaha!

when i started my part in the retreat, and tried introducing painting to the group, i got all the so familiar outbursts, well, excuses, to be more blunt about it.  

and i have to assure them:  art and creativity?  we all have that in our hearts, it is just a matter of consciously awakening it every now and then.  what with all the everyday mundane concerns we beset ourselves with?  these things just make us abandon the more necessary.

we all have that thing we want to do, but sometimes, all we have to do it on, is on a cardboard box.  we could point to the box and say, hey, that's a box.  i cannot do a thing with that.  and throw the box away.  and wait for something right and proper like paper to show up in your hands.  or, we could pull out our paints and brushes and get to work!

i do not know how big, ugly, or impossible it seems to you.  but i do know, you have one.  so, what will you do with it?  bwahahaha! 

thank you for letting me live a life that sees that the view is best outside the box.  ilysm! ♥ ♥ ♥