–T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
I am oft reminded of this key line in response to street killings and drugged-up crazies with no other higher purpose to their lives. Eliot’s distinction in choice puts everything into perspective: the best and worst of human instincts and behaviors.
Speaking personally, I’ve long lived a life of creating and making interesting, meaningful things out of nothing or the best available resources round me. Each day with the blog, for instance, I create something that is important to me and which I feel is worth communicating.
Some other examples:
Creating a significant Canadian book collection with blog
Creating a display for Remembrance Day to remember my father
Co-creating two significant, very interesting offspring
Creating my own chapbooks
Creating an interesting personal wardrobe
Creating innumerable imaginative stories and fantasies from a young age
Creating bands out of available friends to entertain various crowds and audiences
Creating various performing personas from my teen years on
Creating my own songs and discs of original poems and songs
Creating a 30-year high-school English teaching career to instill an interest in reading, writing, books, movies, music, and literature
Creating interesting vacations and trips for family
Creating over 50 textbooks and guides for junior and senior high English students
Creating a unique audio collection of favorite authors
Creating an interesting, curated Classics Illustrated comic collection
Creating a collection of signed memorabilia by famous performers and writers
Creating and collecting interesting, intriguing details and images that have interested me
Creating readers in my family
Creating relationships with wildlife in my yard
Creating relationships to last a lifetime
Creating relationships with pets
Creating in various media
Creating a successful, focused, serious-minded academic out of a truly weak, distracted student and first year u failures
Creating a grandfatherly equal-playmate persona to/for my grandsons
Creating ‘happenings’ for others going back to high school days
Creating memories of olde for online audiences
Creating special memories for my wife like afternoon tea at the Empress in Victoria
Creating awareness of the arts and significant creators and works online
Creating beauty at home
Creating pathways and connections to increased awareness and consciousness