About Me

Current Math Teacher in a juvenile Prison in Ohio. I love Jesus, Football, Computers, and my family.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

What keeps me Creative?

What inspires me to be creative daily? Weekly? Hmmm....
What a tough question to answer. I suppose I could say my job or the problems I face daily, but I think that would be missing what is actually happening. I think my family and more specifically my wife inspires the majority of my creativity. She is very supportive of me and what I do and always has her mind going like crazy.
She may have dozens of ideas about what we should do and how to do it every day. Believe me when I say that sometimes that gets a little overwhelming. Still, it is those conversations we have where she shares what she wants to do and wants done. It is those that get my mind going. Sometimes I'm thinking about how to avoid doing work. It can take a lot of creativity to keep from having to build a porch or reroof the house. And this is what I do. I begin to think about what we really need accomplished as apposed to what we think we want or need. This is when I can be really creative. Most amazing inventions and creative things of any use were accidents or people trying to make life easier.
My wife and kids do this for me. I want to spend so much time with them, that I have to find ways to limit my time commitments elsewhere. I am really interested to see how others answered this question. I wouldnt be supprised to see answers like: my troll doll, God, my mom, the sunrise, or who knows what else. It is quite interesting when you begin to think about what makes you creative.

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