The Sea of Creativity......

Great news item!  Laura Ling is back!  She wandered into North Korea with a friend, was captured and nearly gave up.  Bill Clinton went in and brought them home...remember?  Now Laura, a media specialist and a very accomplished one, is restarting her career by creating a new television production which will feature major human stories and public interest.  Congratulations, Laura!

There is a larger story here.  I caught this news item, and was happy to see it, only because I scan the news daily from various sources.  In the last year, I have been swept up in new interest for me in the arts, creative arts and the world of artists.  I have been fascinated how they make it through their education, starting their craft, honing a market and a business.  It is for some of the most talented a huge and vast land of opportunity, and a land of difficult challenges, among them, just sometimes survival.

Laura is back, and she had a great start, and she is at it again....creating stories with real life, television journalism, true creative work.  But she is one of millions literally just in the United States, let alone the entire world, with the creative drive, the fire within, making a path...from her artist's soul to the soul of her truest audience, those who would love her work....

It is a vast sea of creativity.  It is like the sea....think for a minute...the oceans take up most of the planet Earth's surface.  We all live on the rest of it, though vast stretches are ice and cold and mountains where nobody can survive.  Billions of us on small patches, relatively, of the planet.  The seas are wide and deep and full of live....marine life beyond description....like the vast sea of human artistic creativity, there are forms and species which have not been catalogued or even seen....

It is a human sea of creative life.  It is the human spirit alive and well everywhere.  The young schoolgirl who can't wait to get up in the morning to draw or paint.  The young professional who dreams of having a week to herself to just paint...the photographer who wants to just photograph that artist at her love of work...the older one who paints what is in his heart...the man and woman who invest in art because they love what it represents....the museum walls filled with live work...the stage off Broadway with the new play that will rock the nation....a vast sea of beauty....so big, moving so fast...no one can keep up with but specs of accidental news, like seeing today that Laura Ling is back. 

As vast as the sea of creativity is, it can mean everything that life is worth living for when one person tells the artist that he loves her work.  In a single instant, the universe becomes real for the artist, and for the one who loves that art.  In a flash of words, a memory and a dream are created that last forever.  The vast and powerful sea of creativity is touched by one who creates and one who loves that creation.

There are no accidents out there...