-shooting landscape shots, Baja, Mexico.
My oldest daughter is mere months away from being an official teenager. I have had the pleasure of watching her passions reveal themselves as she has become more and more her own person with each passing day. From cooking to fashion design to video—the list goes on and on—she has immersed herself in a number of creative outlets trying them each on for size as she “grows up”.
I won’t deny it makes me giddy she’s experimenting with so many creative ways to stretch and spread her wings, try new things, play, and pretend. As I hear her tell stories about her future as a film maker, screen play writer, chef, or even a bridal gown designer, I delight in her visions of following her bliss and living a creative, fulfilling life.
That’s my girl.
As mothers, we never know when—or if—our children will ever appreciate the things that are important to us. Have I always wanted my daughter to establish herself in a creative career? Not necessarily. But I have always tried to show, by example, how to tie in a little creativity every day and how much sweeter life can be because of it.
No matter where my daughter’s career takes her (we’ve got plenty of time until then) I will continue to encourage her collage making, bridal gown sketches, cooking and capturing life through her lens; whether it be video, cell phone, point and shoot or even my own DSLR. I certainly can’t take all the credit for my daughter’s love for being creative but I can sure keep showing her how it can be done, how the world is her oyster and how a creativity—whatever that might mean to her in the bigger picture—is not only possible, it can be a way of life.
