Creativity Challenged

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Sheets of rain covered the ground. Little rivers began to wander where they shouldn’t. They wandered back and forth in strange directions from my perspective. “Little rivers of creativity” I thought. “I resemble this”. I sit with my computer to write, or slide onto the piano seat with pen and paper to write a song. I hope one of those little rivers of brand-new creativity flows from me straight and true upon my command. Maybe you can relate??

Yes, my water stream froze overnight…like my creativity sometimes

Awhile back I published a piece that stutter-started and flowed here and there out of my inner being. Just the words of a song. The music flowed. Most of the words came together. I was excited because I had always wanted to just hit a strong chord that demanded immediate resolve and start singing.

I wanted a piano interlude that challenged my poor stubby fingers (from an accident when young). I wanted deep meaning words from a simple concept title. I wanted three different musical types that would fit together as well as make the musician be inspired enough to repeat parts that seemed meaningful as the audience participated (I hoped they would as a natural response). I wanted a lot.

Don’t we all want a lot? We want to connect those big and little rivers of creativity with others. We want to make a difference. We all have our own list of outcome ingredients. Me? I want to be what the song suggests…in a good enough place to sing for my creator. I’m just thankful when my little rivers on earthy mind come together into a semblance of song…hope you enjoy this trickle of music, your style or not. A simple YouTube recording. I put a mic on the camera … Anytime Anywhere

Gary

I had had published the words on my Gods Ways Are Different Blog…this is a follow up with the music.

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Outdoors Man, Hunter, Fisherman, Guide, Writer / Author, Photographer, Public Speaker, Musician, Song Writer, Story Teller, Follower Of Jesus. Love God and family and total strangers

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  8. Lovely song! I think it would do well with audience participation-much like Michael W. Smith encourages with his music. Your lyrics are inspiring and you accompanied yourself on the keyboard quite well! 🙂

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    1. Thanks Nancy. I actually do well leading an audience from the keyboard. It’s a gift I don’t understand or take credit for. It could just be the audience naturally fills in gaps without realizing the dynamics…” hey, let’s help out this guy” kind of thing.

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    1. Thank you Joy. My mother used to tell me “quit beating up the piano”. It comes from a farm accident as a kid that cut the nerves off in my arms. Being I had no feeling in my fingers for my teen years, piano was my doctor prescribed therapy, hoping some feeling would come back. Some did, not all. So my fingering interlude on the song took me over a month for my present day fingers to do that. An amazing tidbit for me…the only time I feel well in my fingers is when I play the piano. Otherwise I can get a wood sliver under a fingernail and maybe feel it a little.

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  11. I video-chatted with an old friend this morning, and told her how much I admired her creativity in writing songs – she was proliferous! I asked if she still wrote, and yes, occasionally now. Hers were always bright, cheerful songs, full of praise to God and lessons to be learned for her children.

    Like you, I long to be so creative and wise in choosing just the right word for the deep concepts I desire to convey. Sometimes it comes out in prose. Rarely in poetry. And I’m flummoxed as to how a person can just “come up with” a tune out of nowhere.

    I like your song. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Thanks Kathy

      You are definitely a good writer…”flummoxed” is a good word. I don’t have an answer or a fix. I have a guitar player friend who writes songs, but they are strange to me musically. The only way he can create something new is to tune his guitar “differently”. There is something to that. I create mostly in 3 different keys. All flats. This song is in d flat…guitarists hate that key. Andre Crouch played and created in that key a lot. I do believe we each have a box of creativity given to us. Some things are not in our box, but there may just be a couple rare items that very few get….ya, sticking to that answer

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      1. Thanks Gary 😊
        Hmm… A box. I like that. God doesn’t give everyone the same box with everything in it. He portions to each as He wills, and the intertwining of those gifts is what He likes to see as we work together as the Body of Christ. And we get to appreciate the beauty in one another, and give God glory for His beauty and blessings.

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  13. Your streams of creativity analogy reverberates with me, Gary. Water pretty much travels where it wants, and that’s how creating something from scratch often feels. Someone says something that awakens the muse in my mind, and I say,”Hey, that’s a writing prompt!” Before I know it, I’m “off to the races.” The song or story pretty much writes itself. Other times, I’ve had a stream of thoughts I couldn’t do anything with for years. Such are the struggles of those who bring ideas to life…
    I enjoyed your song. Well done!

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    1. Thanks David. I read the comments from the lyrics only post. I’m sure the tune you had come to mind reading them was a bit different than mine. You do guitar speak…I do keyboard language in d flat for starters….then there’s life experience differences…be fun to compare 10 musicians writing the music separately with the same lyrics

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      1. D flat is definitely not a guitar key, not without using a capo, anyway. It’s usually the key of D or G that I start with when writing a song. Anything key with flats is hard on guitar—again, without a capo.

        I enjoy our dialogue, Gary.

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    1. I’m glad God’s enjoyment of our praise is not on a sliding scale. The joyful part seems to be the emphasis….you are covered Fred. If I lose my voice I’m still Good with God….Neither of us is auditioning on “the Voice”

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  17. Thank you for all of this, Gary–for your honest searching in your creativity, for sharing your piano talent (wow that interlude!), and for reminding me of God’s comfort this morning. “When my world is in despair… I rest in your care.” Amen. Thank you.

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  20. Thanks Donna. Music is a vulnerable area for me but once in awhile there is something that’s shareable without spending big money on a much better recording. In this case it was good to share that’s on creativity issues as well as an encouragement to worship no matter what.

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    1. Thanks Linda. I was blessed with some inspiration to write and come up with some good chord progressions to match the words. It’s been a dry few years on song writing so it was “thank you God”.

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    1. Thanks, I’m sure hoping for spring in my creativity area. I’m very tickled the song came like it did. A piece of me flowed out. A good sign and your comment is very encouraging.

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