creativity is joyous: inspiration from alice walker

"It’s really ecstatic. I just feel such joy that I feel transparent; and if there is a time when it’s a struggle, I have learned by now that you just stop and do something else, and if it never comes back, whatever the thought was, let it go...something else will come. It seems to me that creativity, creation itself, is joyous, and if it’s not really, you’re up the wrong creek." Alice Walker

Yes, this is what creativity and creation are: the expression of joy. I love that inspirational author Alice Walker donated her archives to my alma mater Emory University’s library, where I spent hundreds of hours during college. (I wish she had come to campus when I was there!) I’ve quoted her in my doctoral dissertation on the arts and in my Vastu home design book.

Sherri Silverman
August 30, 2021 blog post