by Tao Oliveto, Carrboro, NC

We are always searching for creative outlets - through our meals, our clothes, our hobbies and artistic endeavors. It’s human nature to nourish the innate creative force.  Little do we know, our convenient lifestyles have taken much of our every day creative opportunities away from us.  We’ve turned from tribal communities to masses without meaning.

In the midst of my eco-anxiety, I try to remind myself that the environmental and social problems we are facing  are also opportunities for creative change. It’s a familiar theme in nature, philosophy and even science - destruction before creation, death and rebirth, dwell in possibility, you know what they say - the opposite of war is not peace, it’s creativity…

We can open the many doors that are becoming available to us or we can sit on our butts and look out the windows. I’ve always been a door kind of person - and there is an abundance showing up now. Open them. Take a long, creative look and step through.