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Today is the first of our Fea­tured Blogs, to read more about the What,Why and Hows check out the descrip­tion page. Today’s first came to me by suprise as many things often do. The Blog was started by Christina (Tina) Wes­sels and her blog is about Inspi­ra­tion and how many of flirt with our cre­ativ­ity but never really hookup with it. But it is more than just about “almost” it is about nam­ing and hon­or­ing the cre­ative seed that resides in all of us, the lit­tle urg­ings and long­ings we have learned to hide because we don’t want to offend, it is to sum­ma­rize Gar­ri­son Keil­lor our faith­ful­ness to “suffering”.

On her lit­tle part of the web Tina is doing her part to pull aside the cur­tain of suf­fer­ing, and offer­ing instead encouragement,support and recog­ni­tion each crit­i­cal in coax­ing us out of our repressed state. I found in Tina’s effort a recog­ni­tion of the seed of the change we are all expe­ri­enc­ing it is the seed of giv­ing, of grow­ing and lead­ing and more than any­thing else the courage to take the step into a place on uncer­tainty and unfamiliarity.

The more peo­ple we can awaken, the more eyes we can open the more peo­ple there will be who learn the value of art in their lives and the more they will open to their own gifts.

This is what I read on Tina’s blog…

Work­ing in a cubi­cle by day… a crafter/artist/mommy by night I have always felt the need to cre­ate and share my cre­ations with oth­ers. Artists are every­where I look. Artists are my neigh­bors. Artists live under the same roof with me and give me good­night kisses. My mother is a great artist. Artists are my “busi­ness part­ners”. Some peo­ple are artists and I don’t even know it, some are artists and THEY don’t even know it. Some artists even make me cup­cakes! BUT… I don’t always get to see the art behind the daily artist. Enter Inspi­ra­tion Flirtation…