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Sometimes a phrase repeats. Either you hear it or see it, but once you are aware of it, you see it everywhere. Does that happen to you, too?
For me it has been a creative bombardment over the last 48 hours found in the rink, the truck, my studio, the www.
The phrase? Ripple Effect.
- At the rink one of the skating instructors was referring to the ripple effect of teaching skating to young kids and what happens when they "get it". Apparently it starts with one and it just ripples through all the students and in one single class almost every kid has it figured out. (After 20+ years of teaching she claims it is the most satisfying part of her job. I would imagine!)
- I was tidying up my studio after the holiday create-and-wrap fiesta and found some Christine Mason Miller books that I have not sent out - from 18 months ago! I'm thinking I have a post office phobia to go along with the rest of my issues! Then I read some of her words. *Sigh*
- I found a #reverb10 response post over at Carolyn Rubenstein's brilliant Ripple Effect blog. The funny part? The words from CMM's book were right there to be re-read.
- In the truck my iPod shuffle pulled up one of my most favourite songs from a couple of years ago, a bit unconventional but the words are spectacular:
I think I found the recipe of creativity
Put all you've got, then add some heart
They fence us in to break us down
But still they can't shut us down
The walls are thin
But still we're strong
We're broken but we beat as one
blah blah blah, then the chorus
Drop me in the middle so I can make a ripple effect
Upon the ocean I'll be the moon that turns the tide
Drop me in the middle so I can make a ripple
A domino effect, falling through the sands of time
Isn't that beautiful? I've been humming it ever since I heard it yesterday.
Now what am I do do with all of these ripples? Just imagine all that I missed before I started paying attention!
I'm not quite sure, but now that I'm aware of them I'm going to have to figure it out.
Okay, that's it for my morning mull. I must run and take Claire to the rink - she's timekeeping today! Cole's already there (sadly I miss his game vs Waterloo). Then I have to make breakfast for and then deliver our Norwegian friends to their rink. Life is good! And busy ...
