The Restory Retreat Centre

  Creativity Gives The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Drawing Inside everybody's head  There's a place that they can go,  Where they're free to draw and doodle  All their fancy-doodle-doo. They can draw a cat-bat-raddle-daddle-  Floogle-boogle-bip,  Or a funny-looking-squimmily-wimmily  Slippery-slippery-slip. They can draw their thoughts and feelings  Instead of hiding them inside,  And no one else can see them...  Unless they want to show their pride. So if you see me staring into space,  And a kinda smile comes on my face,  And I kinda look up at the sky,  Don't bother asking me why... 'Cause I'm drawing  In my head. Shel Silverstein                                          Take note of what Shel is saying: "In  Everybody's  head...: Go and do it. Please! With all our love. George ...

Kreatiwiteit Gee Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek Drawing Inside everybody's head  There's a place that they can go,  Where they're free to draw and doodle  All their fancy-doodle-doo. They can draw a cat-bat-raddle-daddle-  Floogle-boogle-bip,  Or a funny-looking-squimmily-wimmily  Slippery-slippery-slip. They can draw their thoughts and feelings  Instead of hiding them inside,  And no one else can see them...  Unless they want to show their pride. So if you see me staring into space,  And a kinda smile comes on my face,  And I kinda look up at the sky,  Don't bother asking me why... 'Cause I'm drawing  In my head. Shel Silverstein                                         Let op wat sê Shel: "In Everybody's head...: Gaan doen dit. Asseblief! Met al ons liefde. George & Matilda

A small river we cross on the way to Newcastle. Photo by Matilda This time round I have been waiting very long for the spark. That tiny little flicker of a thing that sets the ready kindling alight, slowly warming my insides with ideas licking slowly higher and higher, until I can no longer contain myself. And start creating in a burst of red hot energy!  It is not a necessary ingredient in the life of an artist, I am told. One should create, write, sculpt whether you feel inspired or not. It comes with the doing. With the keeping at it. So I'm told and it has been my experience for the most. But there is a marked difference. If inspiration can be graded, I would have to say, the keep-at-it-and-it-comes-along variety has always been rather lukewarm for me personally. It does not seem to heat up much, but burns steadily and quietly, producing well... well, producing sellable products. But it hardly raises my pulse.   While I'm in the creative slow cooker I am ...