Bea Drawing

Bea Drawing (Tomasito photo 2009)

The other day our home-school kids, Zaccai and Hannah, were cutting out and pasting together some shapes which are in the foreground of today's photo--examples of the famous "Five Platonic Solids"--and I guess all of us were pretty inspired by them to be more creative.

Most of these card-stock shapes evolved into Christmas ornaments and are now decorating trees here and there.

Ninety-one year old Bea , inspired by our "Platonic Solids" models, I think, did some of her own highly creative free-form drawing.

We all inspire each other to be creative--and I found these appropriate words in the book by Henry Glassie: The Spirit of Folk Art.

"We operate in a world that lies beyond our control, using things we did not make to create things that, like us, will not last." -- "Our creativity is but participation in creation."

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