‘Zum Erstaunen bin ich da’
 I am here to wonder
 Goethe

The way that the flowering of questions held in a heart determines the life-path of the questioner has always interested me.  On my own creative path (thus far) there seem to have been five broad ‘chapters’.  The occasional via creativa posts are excerpts from these chapters, written as I searched for the questions that put the creative fire beneath each of those passages.  What was I wondering about?  And what was filling me with wonder?
 
It’s now clear to me that curiosity and wonderment act like automatic invitations to the great mystery we call Creation.  (Their presence doesn’t guarantee it’ll show up, but if it does, they’ll be there for sure.) I, as ‘maker’, function as its instrument; my hands are its ‘hands’, my questioning mind is the catalyst for its expression.
 
I wasn’t born with this wisdom.  Its ripening was slow and sometimes magical, gracious.  More often it was appallingly challenging.  These days it seems increasingly problematic for people of any age to find the work they are tailor-made to do – and to love doing. Perhaps my story will make it easier for others to accept and walk their own unique via creativa.

The via creativa pages can be read in full on the wonderingmind website