Ode to the Creative Child

"Look, Mommy!"

Your child hands you a most amazing drawing, but you are biased.

"Look, Mommy!"

Your child does a most beautiful dance move, but you are biased.

"Look, Mom!"

Your child shows you creative skills beyond your wildest dreams. You are biased.

"Look, Mom!"

Your children show you their visions of the world...Your breath is taken away.

You are biased.

I just want to hold you close like I did when you were a baby...protected.

But you must share your visions with the world...unprotected. 

Our world needs to see new creations and new visions.

If not for those, we would become stagnant.

But I am biased.

You will be ridiculed and disregarded...Of that I am sure.

But if you share your creations...whether it be paintings, movies, photographs, designs, thoughts, song, dance...

If you strive to share your creations, however seemingly trivial to others, you will find a moment of happiness.

You will have moments of being poor and rich and sometimes both...Of that I am sure.

But from one who knows...no one can take away the few moments of happiness that creating grants you.

But I am biased.

Of that I am sure.