Or hopeful to become artists…
TO:
Open your paintbox and let yourself out!
Open your toolbox and let yourself out!
Open your sewing box and let yourself out!
Get out your paintbrush, crayons or chalk Get out your measuring tape, hammer and saw. Get out your scissors, needle and thread and begin to make something!!!
Much of today’s frustration, gloom, depression, and mental ills are, I believe, because we are not letting our creative skills and desires out of the box where they have been hidden – afraid of what others might think of them.
People feel locked in… going nowhere…and they aren’t. We need purpose…even if the only purpose at the time is to open the box of your artistic desire and just begin!
Have something to look forward to every morning when you wake up. Go to the hardware store, the lumberyard, a greenhouse or fabric store, and take in the smells and feels and plan to do something with those desires and skills.
Go outside with your box of markers or colored pencils and pad of paper and draw the tree you see, or the patch of dandelions. No…your work will not look like anyone else’s (probably won’t meet other’s approval), but who cares? It’s not their work, their design or mental health that needs continual development. It’s yours!
Now get at it!
You need to make something! … and …
Others will benefit when you make things!
Mrs. Goodfinder 