Welcome to creativity week!! As we get started, let’s pause to recognize the most creative of relationships:
“Co-creation” by January Handl
My children birthed me
Many times through our time together,
We have labored over
Our relationship
Our independence
Our interlocked destinies
We have adventured as “family”
Fought as friends do, with
Our least selves held in honor
At some core level
While our higher selves
Offered bridges of joy
And reflections of gratitude
Side-splitting times of laughter
Silent understandings,
And connected times of sorrow
They have offered me opportunity
To parent myself again
As I witnessed my wounds and worries,
Flaws and failings
Through the interchange of our love
And deeply realized my strengths and offerings,
Gifts and passions
Through the memories we have
made with each other
After 50 plus years on the planet,
I am more deeply realized,
knowing more surely the most hidden parts of
My existence
The most vulnerable aspects of human life
The greatest possibilities of being-ness-
Through this one role:
It is the richest vein of learning
The single most channel of wealth
I have experienced:
Through the tunnel, river, canyon, ocean, sky
called “mother”
Tamara finds creativity “through the looking glass” and with her marvelous eye capable of seeing more than I ever would. January celebrates the opportunity and pure creativity we have in our core relationships. Creativity is always a magical offering, waiting quietly in our day to day meanderings ready to offer something new and different to transform the moment.
CREATIVITY – The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.
How will you use the magic this week?
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Tamara and January are here each Monday to help set the mood for the week!
Tamara Magnitsky
Tamara Magnitsky, a child of the wild blue yonder,
has been an ardent student and advocate for poetry, photography and excellence in general.
She is the mother of a 6 year old daughter and a beloved wife.
She can be found most days.
Bio written by Cary Brosius ~Tamara’s husband 🙂
January Handl
January Handl is first and always a mother, has been a preschool teacher and parent educator for 25 years. She is currently the Director/head teacher at Gazebo Park School, and lives at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. She lives simply in awe of existence.
She calls her photo “hot tub bliss” 🙂