- Who my new across-the-street neighbors are?
- Where the recycling collectors on our street go home to?
- Who is wearing the clothes I donate to the Vietnam Veteran’s Association?
- What makes my husband laugh when he is watching TV in the next room?
- Why am I keeping myself so busy?
- What relationships have I let slip out of my life?
You already know Pearl from her regular wisdom doses on our blog. Our resident Relationship Coach always gets us thinking deeper and bigger…
Carrie says: Curiosity is the key to creativity. Asking: How does this work? What if? Wonder what? I yearn for more creativity, this question reveals how I’m suppressing my curiosity. If I let myself be more curious I would be savoring daily delights with people and creating beauty in my life; photos, books, food, fashion and home, well…everything!
Danielle says: I’ve stopped being actively curious about each of my parents. Sigh. I take their history for granted, as if I know the whole story. If I engaged in some memory-lane questions about their own stories, who knows what I’d find…softening, sadness, affirmation, some wicked laughs.
Pearl says: I have started to think about this question more as I watch my two teenage boys move swiftly into adolescence. In the time it took me to go from packing extra cheese sticks in my purse to making sure their cell numbers were programmed into my phone—my boys have gone from “But, why?” to “Yeah, I know.” Their curiosity about everything and anything was certainly trying at times but it was my constant reminder not to take anything for granted. It was also a reason to pause and ponder. It prodded me to find things out and connect to new people and ideas. When we stop being curious we start to get cynical and close ourselves off from the wonder of the world around us. So I started to examine what I have stopped being curious about. The longer my list, the closer I got to some pretty core issues in my life. Here are a few things from the beginning and end of my list. I have stopped being curious about…
Carrie makes room for creativity in her day, with these inexpensive, personalized greeting cards.
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