Creative - djembe and drawing

[shortindiangirl]

Been in a rather creative mood lately. A few weeks ago I felt compelled to get a djembe and it has been a wonderful toy. I've felt that it's a release for pent up creative energy. Even though I wasn't actively being creative at my previous job (what with so much LEED left-brained work to do), I had just enough outlet for it that I wasn't actively

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[idahoswede]

Things will never be the same as they used to be, that's the nature of living, BUT the new feelings will be tempered by the pain you have felt, the birth of a child, all that has become you since you last painted or wrote poetry and it will give new depth and texture to what you produce and you WILL produce. Take it from a 60-year-old who has been through it all and is once again getting out the paints, the camera, the dance music. Maybe I'll even buy a doumbek and start drumming again (only Middle Eastern beats).

[shortindiangirl]

Thank you. I really really needed to hear that from a 60-year old. It gives me hope that there will be a time again, when I can sit and feel and remember what I felt, rather than feel-on-the-go and wonder if I actually felt anything, or if the feeling even existed for the fleeting second that it did.

I feel less of a sense of urgency now to take out the charcoal and hold on. But hopefully I can craft a trip to an exotic land before too long and still trade some parenting time to draw things that I see.

[idahoswede]

I don't see why parenting and creativity cannot work side by side, although it IS harder.

I know in my 30s, I felt like I was losing my edge, turning into an adult with adult responsibilities is rough and sometimes things get left out, but so long as you are alive, there's always time to not only call back old pleasures but find new ones. Look at me - travelling to India for the first time and going on a photo safari and re-discovering a passion for my photography.

It's not very exotic and you've probably been here before, but come to the UK. I am sure Biddles and I will get along fine and Mummy can have some time off as well.

[deponti]

What a lovely conversation between a friend and a daughter!

SIG, is this your idea of being inarticulate!!! Certainly not mine.

As to feelings...oh yes, you will feel things as intensely, and it's my belief that you STILL do.

I devoted much more of my life to my child and I found my creative side again (or had it all along) without any difficulty. So...don't onion-peel and worry yourself.

UK..in fact Ireland and Scotland...seem a great place to visit, though of course quite expensive....