Gratitude Challenge Day 7: Creativity

I’m thankful for the creativity of artists–writers, poets, dancers, singers, actors, painters, composers, musicians, potters, sculpters–because they imagine a world that would be, could be. They’re the dreamers who envision a different way of being so that once we’re so immersed in it ourselves, it becomes our reality, almost as though it were a foregone conclusion.

I think about the original Trek series because, hello, I was married to one Bryan Lubbers, Trekker extraordinaire. He would often make note of different elements of the program that pointed to things to come–a multi-racial cast, tech ideas that seem pretty commonplace now or will be in our lifetime, methods of dealing with conflicting ideologies.

Creativity has the root word create in it. I love that so much because we’re world-building all the time and the artists lead the way.