There are many different reasons why we don’t create as much as we could.

Trying to get focused and unleash your creativity sometimes feels about as easy as tap dancing in quicksand.

The more you struggle, the deeper you seem to sink into a state of depression, frustration and non-action.

Creative blocks come in many different guises, and each has its own particular ways of defeating our creative spirit and energy.

The most valuable starting point to overcome these creative blocks is to understand what we’re up against, and recognise exactly what it is that’s holding us back.

Here’s one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it:

Creative Block: “I always mess up my creative projects”.

How you know when you’re experiencing it:

Over a period of time – months, years, even decades – you’ve had a number of creative projects not turn out how you first planned them. You often start with big bold ideas and loads of enthusiasm, and throw yourself into a new project with great momentum.

But pretty soon, the project starts to look a little different to how you thought it would.

Instead of accepting this, and letting the project, and your creativity, flow and evolve into something special, you see it as a failure.

You consider yourself undisciplined and unfocused, and as someone who doesn’t have the strength or ability to see things through to the end.

You feel: “There’s another project I’ve made a mess of. I’ve got to be close to triple figures by now…”.

This experience repeated over a period of time has worn you down to the point where now you don’t even bother to create because you feel: “I’ll only mess this up, what’s the point of starting, wasting my creative energy and materials?”

Tips to overcome this type of creative block:

“Making a mess” and “messing up”, whatever that means to you, is a natural part of creating.

Making mistakes, taking wrong turns, getting half way through a project before realising it’s evolving into something entirely different to what you envisioned it being when you started, are ALL healthy and necessary parts of our creative processes and development.

Accepting this can seem difficult and unnatural, and we believe everything we create should be perfect first time and pop out into the world like some immaculate conception.

Here’s some of the ways you can begin to happily welcome “the joy of mess” into your creative life:

Tip 1. Deliberately make a mess: Get a brand new notebook, go to somewhere in the middle, turn it upside down and start scribbling your thoughts in every direction on the page. Become familiar with creating outside of the lines, and beyond the limits of neat, ordered perfection.

Tip 2. Making a mess means… : Write this in the middle of a blank page and then write around all the reasons you can think of, however good or bad. Just brainstorm and write what making a mess means to you. This will help you unlock some of the negative associations you have, and begin to reduce their power to block your creativity.

Tip 3. Mess Is Beautiful: Write in large letters “Mess Is Beautiful” and pin it up somewhere on your wall near where you create. Each day take a few minutes to contemplate how mess can be beautiful and how it can help you evolve in your creative life.

Feeling “I always mess up my creative projects” is just one of the most common creative blocks we experience.

Use the tips above to experiment with your beliefs and associations around making a mess and messing up, and see how you can soon begin to overcome this kind of creative block and unleash your creativity.

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Throughout our hectic and busy lives we have many thoughts and ideas that pop into our heads. You are an information source for other people much like a computer is. We all have valuable knowledge that we need to share with others. How do you tap into it?

Think about how many conversations and signs and just general information is thrown at you throughout your day. For most of this, you have your filter in high gear, meaning if the stuff you are hearing is not of interest to you or does not concern you, it remains low on the radar screen. There are new great ideas formed every minute of every day; they are just passed off and ignored most of the time.

So how do we harness our thoughts and ideas and turn them into something beneficial? This is the question you should be asking yourself.

Start to pay more attention to your surroundings. Think of it this way, have you ever bought something and started to notice how many people have the same thing? I remember a few years back, I bought a Silver Dodge Ram pick-up truck, as I drove it off the lot and made my way to the highway and then eventually back to my house, I started noticing how many of these same trucks were on the road. I thought to myself, “I don’t remember ever seeing this many Dodge Ram’s on the road.”

What actually happened was that I simply took my blinders off and became aware of these similar trucks because I now had a vested interest in them. The same is true for just about everything that we encounter in life. We have are blinders on until we are in some way impacted personally.

Most of us go through life with a set routine. We wake up, go to work, go home and go to bed. On weekends, perhaps we go out to eat at the same few restaurants, perhaps engage in watching some TV, or doing yard work, or cleaning the house. The point is, by having the schedules that we do, we are not allowing ourselves the opportunity to be creative.

My proposal is simple. Wake up earlier; try driving a few different ways to work maybe listening to a different radio station or try eating at a new restaurant. Why you ask? Simple. By changing your routine, it allows you to bring a new stimulus into your life.

By driving a new unfamiliar route to work, you will be paying more attention to signs and the roads and buildings along the way. We get so set in a driving pattern; we can drive to work in our sleep. Have you ever gotten half way to work and thought, “I don’t remember getting this far or passing this exit.” It’s because your brain is no longer stimulated. Driving on new roads will force you to pay attention to your surroundings, thus creating a new stimulus for your brain. Working out our minds is just as important as working out are bodies to get in shape. If we want to get stronger physically, we can go to a gym and lift weights. The same holds true for your brain. If you want to expand your awareness or gain knowledge, your brain needs to be stimulated.

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Trying to unleash your creativity is often easier said than done. There are many times when creating ANYTHING feels like an upward struggle on the steepest mountain in the fiercest elements.

The harder you try, the more stuck and blocked you feel. Soon you feel so disillusioned and demoralised, you give up creating altogether, rather than face another exhausting battle.

Creative block appears in a number of different disguises, with a variety of reasons behind it.

The most valuable first step in overcoming creative block is to recognise when you’re experiencing it, and what type of block it is.

Here’s one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it:

Creative Block: “I don’t know what to create”.

How you know when you’re experiencing it:

Coming up with ideas for creative projects is one of the last of your worries.

You find it easy to produce a steady stream of possible projects to work on, in a number of different creative mediums.

In fact this type of creative block is very deceptive as it appears that your creativity is anything but blocked, and it’s actually flowing like a raging river.

But the problem lies in actually choosing ONE project to work on, and seeing it through to its natural end. You’ve started dozens of different projects, only to find half way through it doesn’t interest you anymore and it gets abandoned for a new, more exciting and more stimulating project.

How often have you found yourself thinking: “Now THIS is the project I REALLY want to be working on right now.”

Tips to overcome this type of creative block:

The most important factor here is to pick a project, start creating and see it through to some kind of natural conclusion.

Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of projects and possibilities open to us is where most of us get really blocked.

So here’s a simple 3 step process you can use time and time again:

1. Choose a project. Don’t take too long in this, the aim is to pick SOMETHING and get creating, rather than spend all your creative energy in deliberating. Wherever you start, it’s a great place to start.

2. Set a creative period and review date. For example commit to working for 15 mins each day on your chosen project for the next 14 days. Then on day 14 review your progress. Whenever you’re creating, you’re learning about yourself.

3. Review, adjust, create some more. When you reach your review date, look at where you are with your creative project, what’s been going well, what you’ve discovered, what you’d like to change, and so on. Then set the next review date and carry on creating.

Feeling “I don’t know what to create” is just one of the most common creative blocks we experience.

Experiment with the 3 step process above in your creative life and see how it helps you overcome this type of creative block. Very soon you’ll begin to see how it can help you reduce this kind of creative block and unleash your creativity.

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All of us who create experience times when creating feels more difficult than others.

However much you want to just let go and unleash your creativity, sometimes it feels like running through treacle with lead boots on.

There are many different ways we experience creative block, and a variety of reasons behind them.

The most valuable first step is to recognise the creative block, then we can take action to begin to work through it.

Here’s one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it:

Creative Block: “My work isn’t good enough”.

How you know when you’re experiencing it:

You’re creating less and less because you fear that your work - the art and the projects you create - just isn’t good enough.

At some stage, from somewhere or other, you’ve inherited some measure of what “good enough” looks like and sounds like.

The only problem is, your version of “good enough” in fact to others looking in from the outside is more like “impossibly ambitious” and “perfect in every last detail”.

There’s nothing wrong with creative ambition – it’s highly important to all of us. Being willing to create the best you can is also honourable and admirable.

But striving to be perfect with every project, and as a result not finishing any of them, is simply not healthy and productive for our creativity.

Tips to overcome this type of creative block:

At the root of this creative block is the pursuit of perfectionism. So the natural way to overcome it and work beyond it is to reject - or at least greatly reduce – our quest to be completely perfect with every creative project.

Here’s some ways to do this:

Progression not perfection. Replace your pursuit of perfectionism with a pursuit of progressing yourself creatively. With each project aim to give the best creative expression of yourself at this time, rather than the absolute perfect creative expression possible.

Allow creative projects to evolve naturally. Maybe you start writing an article about choosing vegetables to grow in your back garden, then find most of what you’re writing is about how to prepare the ground.

So your article goes from being called “Grow Your Own Vegetables: Choosing The Right Produce For You” to “Grow Your Own Vegetables: Preparing The Soil For A Bumper Harvest”.

Let it evolve naturally, and you have a great focused new article, plus part of the original article to expand in the future. Resist letting the article evolve and you end up with a single confused, half finished article, that isn’t want you wanted anyway.

See each creative project as a learning experience. With everything you create, ask “What can I learn from this project? What do I know about myself and my creativity that I didn’t know before?”.

If a project gets just too stuck, take a break, create something else. Choose something small, fun and with no expectation. When you return to your main creative project you’ll be in a different frame of mind to continue.

Feeling “My work isn’t good enough” is just one of the most common creative blocks we experience.

Use the tips above to experiment and start to overcome this form of creative block yourself. Persist and you’ll soon see how you’re beginning to unleash your creativity.

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Sometimes when we wish to create, it’s not the lack of willingness that’s the issue.

However much you long to unleash your creativity, that fact is there are times it feels like the hardest thing in the world.

Invisible blocks stop you dead in your tracks and you can’t see a way to get going again.

So you end up feeling frustrated, dejected and disillusioned with creating completely.

There are a variety of types of creative block, and many reasons behind them. The most important first step is to recognise them, then you can begin to take action to overcome them.

Here’s one of the most common creative blocks and some tips on how you can overcome it:

Creative Block: “I don’t know HOW to create anymore”.

How you know when you’re experiencing it:

You used to create regularly and freely, whatever your favourite types of creative media were. Slowly, and almost imperceptibly, you began creating less and less, as other parts of your life took over.

Now, having realised how little you create – if you create at all – you want to get back to creating like you used to.

The major block however is that you doubt you CAN create like you used to. You’re afraid of trying, because the not knowing is less painful than knowing outright that you can’t create like you used to.

Trying, and then “failing”, would be too difficult to bear, so you don’t even attempt to, and this is the root of your creative block.

Tips to overcome this type of creative block:

The most effective way to overcome this kind of creative block is to start small and gradually build up your “creative muscles”.

If you were an athlete who hadn’t run a marathon for 5 years, and had barely run at all in the last year, you wouldn’t expect to go out tomorrow and run another marathon.

It’s the same approach with creating.

Here’s 3 simple steps that will help you get back in the creative flow:

Step 1. Choose a form for your daily creative output. This could be a journal entry, a small sketch in a pocket notebook, or a few lines of poetry. Something easy to get into.

Step 2. Commit to a time each day to create your daily entry. It needs only be 10 or 15 minutes to start with. Choose a time of day you’re more comfortable with and you can make a regular commitment to. It might be first thing in the morning, last thing at night, or at lunch. Do whatever’s practical for your creative life.

What’s MOST important is that you show up to create at your regular timeslot and create SOMETHING everyday. It doesn’t matter if it’s one line of writing or three lines of a sketch.

You’ve showed up, you’ve created. You’ve proved you can do it.

Step 3. Repeat, build and expand. After a week or two of creating regularly, start to build up the time you create for, and the amount you create. Like the athlete in training for the marathon builds the distance they run over time, do the same for you creativity.

In just a few weeks, if you commit to your daily creativity you’ll start to see amazing results in both your creative confidence, and in finding what you want to create again.

Feeling “I don’t know how to create anymore” is just one of the most common creative blocks we experience.

Use the tips above to experiment and begin to overcome this form of creative block. Very soon you’ll feel once more how you’ve begun to unleash your creativity.

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“I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.”

That’s from, The Mikado, a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera that opened at the Savoy, in London, in 1885 and ran for 672 performances. It gave Gilbert the opportunity to satirize British politics and institutions by disguising them as Japanese. Nothing funnier than holding a miror up to myself and thinking I see someone else.

I certainly have a gift for showing my flaws, by projecting them on to someone or something else. I think flaws are a sign of weakness, and I have been taught early on not to be weak. It’s OK for the other guy, cause he’s different in race, color or creed. I must be the same in order to be powerful. I can’t show my true self, for that doesn’t measure up in a judgemental society, so I lie. I hide in order to fit in. I become what others think.

So, I then spend a lifetime trying to figure out where I come from. Where are my power roots? What is my ancestry? Is my family pride something inconceivable?

Well the good news is, I could trace myself back in time and become what I believe, if I give myself the chance. I could change my perceptions of how I want to interact within my world. I could look at myself as consciousness, that is expressing life in a specific way. I could view everything as Love, instead of segmenting it, because my beliefs are distorted. I could look at myself with both male and female qualities, to unite myself in physical form. I could begin to laugh at myself and forgive myself for ignorance. I could do all those things, if my thoughts change from lack to abundance, from bad to good, from flawed to perfect. I will become what I think, and I will be the ancestor I’m looking for, be the family pride I desire, and find the root of truth where I exist.

As Gilbert said, I am protoplasmal primordial atomic globule, filled with the energy of the universe, here to become a grander version of myself. Realizing who I am, expands my vision of my ancestry to include all life, and All There Is, Love.

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If you’re anything like me, the creative process can be at times the most gratifying experience imaginable. Everything comes together in a flurry of creative activity, you enter a “Flow” state where time seems to stand still and nothing else but what you’re working on exists in that moment of time.

The flip-side is that sometimes the blank page, screen or canvas stares back at you and seems to laugh at your inability to produce. These moments feel agonizingly long, every little thing distracts you and nothing gets produced.

During those times it can be extremely challenging to be “okay” with the result (or lack of result) that you’re getting. But when you begin to understand the five elements of creation you can analyze your situation, understand which of the five elements you are currently involved in and, possibly, revisit one of the previous elements to reinvigorate your creative energy.

So what are the five elements of creation? I’m glad you asked…

1. Information Gathering

This is the foraging element of creation when you gather as much information and inspiration as possible. This can include researching related material, interviewing experts or brainstorming ideas, possible angles of approach, etc.

Information gathering is where we must all start if we want to produce something that is both coherent and useful to whomever is going to consume, utilize or appreciate what we’re creating. The process of information gathering should be done without prejudice, which simply means that you gather anything and everything that may be of relevance, without specifically analyzing it.

2. Sifting & Qualifying

This element is where you sort your information more thoroughly and qualify whether it is relevant to you at this time, or not. It is where you delve into the practicality and the relative usefulness of all the information and ideas you gathered or brainstormed in the first step.

By sifting and qualifying you become more familiar with the usefulness of the good information while excluding the non-useful or currently irrelevant items. An important note here is to hang on to the information you are discarding for your current project, as it may become useful when working on another project down the line.

3. Gestation Period

Think of this is as the time during which you are inactively processing all of the information you’ve gathered and sorted. It’s like the caterpillar in the cocoon or the egg sitting in incubation beneath the mother hen awaiting birth.

During the gestation period you may seem or feel to be in active as it relates to your creative project, but your mind is working on the problem at a deeper level than your conscious mind. Your subconscious self can make connections in a way that your conscious mind cannot, making this an imperative element of the creative process.

J.K. Rowling, author of the acclaimed Harry Potter books, reportedly conceived of the book series while on a long train journey. She claims the idea just “fell into her head”, which is gestation at work. This period can take as little as 5 minutes and as long as 5 years or more for the “a-ha!” moment to arrive.

4. Creative Production

As you can probably imagine, this is the practical element of creation after the “a-ha!” moment has arrived and you set pen to paper, keys to keyboard, brush to canvas, etc. It is the period where you are actively producing or creating whatever thing it is that you are working on.

During this phase of creation it continues to be important that you not edit or censor yourself too harshly - there will be plenty of time for that later! What’s important here is the physical act of capturing your creation in whatever form calls to you. Whether you are writing, sketching, orating or designing, this is the active part of creation and is often the most fun and engaging.

5. Editing

The final phase of the process is the editing portion where you go over the work you’ve produced with an editor’s eye (or ear) to ensure that the final product delivers on the initial intent with which you started work in the first place. During this phase you may or may not solicit feedback from others, particularly if they are either experts or your target audience.

Once completed you may have identified changes that need to be made and may choose to go back into the Creative Production phase to re-produce your product. It is a well-known fact that many books are written and re-written several times before they ever make it to the final printed version. Even then errors and inconsistencies are often found and corrected in later revisions of the work.

It is possible, even likely, that you will revisit one or more of the five elements of creation at least once, particularly the creative production and editing phases, although you may find that you are able to complete an initial portion and must then go back into gestation for some period of time to allow the next phase to reveal itself.

The power of knowing these five elements of creation truly lies in being able to plan them accordingly and to identify which phase you are in if and when you get stuck at any point along the way. Revisiting the initial information gathering phase or reviewing some of your discarded research could spark an idea or concept that allows you to go back into production mode quickly and with energy.

Your Action Step is to see if you can identify which of the five elements or phases you are currently engaged in as they relate to a creative project you are working on either at home or at work and see if you have missed any previous steps. It is an all-too-common mistake to try and jump straight into creative production, which is as sure a recipe for frustration as any I can imagine.

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You know the human mind, your mind, is truly awesome. Everything we see around us, incredible architecture, paintings, wondrous machines and the amazing musical masterpieces of the ages all started in someone’s imagination!

We all possess this creative mechanism.

Sometimes though we become, "stuck in a rut" or start to, "see blank", or we "hit a brick wall." These are common phrases used by people that are in ’stuck states.’ Their mind is unwilling to go else where.

Just what is this state of mind and more interestingly how can we discover proven methods to ease out of it, swiftly and smoothly, into inspired and creative states of being?!

If we were to look inside their mind we would likely discover that their ’stuckness’ was in fact a bit like a video loop. It would be as if they were repeating a short clip of a movie over and over: Hit a brick wall… back to the beginning and… repeat…

So how can you snap out of these loops?

Here’s a lickety-split way: Switch Representational System

It’s easier than it sounds honest! Look at that person over there. She looks like she’s in a bit of stymie. "Hey how’s tricks? You look like you could do with some creative inspiration?! Ahhhh ok, Lisa, let’s see what we can do then…"

First of all notice where and how you feel that stuck state. Where on/in your body is that feeling? I bet it’s not in your little toe or is it?!

Good. Now switch representational system by giving that feeling a colour. ‘As you notice that feeling what colour represents that best?’ Just go with the first colour.

And if you wish you could now give that feeling a sound. ‘What sound represents this feeling?’

Great, well done!

You’ve done the main part. What you have done is to access a different part of your mind by representing the feeling in a different sensory system (Visual/Auditory.)

If you wanted, just for fun, you could even represent the feeling as a smell or taste! ‘What does this feeling smell/taste like?’

With that you have instantly accessed multiple resources from different brain centres, allowing the creative process to emerge.

What you can do next is to explore the new representation in it’s own sense system. So for example let’s say the feeling you had, looked like black foggy cloud and sounded like a dull and distant tinny sounding radio.

The next step is to PLAY with these images and sounds.

For example what happens if you ‘paint’ a silver lining around the black clouds?

If you were to imagine bringing that radio closer how would the sound quality alter? Turn the dial?

I think you get the basic gist by now, so go ahead and give it a go and get wild and wacky because humour is always good for a laugh isn’t it?!

So what happens now when you think about the ’stuck state’? Your feelings have changed!

This process enables your mind to have more choice. Instead of getting stuck in a ‘dead end’ pathway, you have numerous ones to choose from. And more choice equals more flexibility, which equals more creativity.

Creativity is just a state of mind that can be triggered with specific mental strategies and can be enhanced by exploring other perspectives using a variety of tools. And the great thing is, the more you practice creative thinking, the more creative you become!

Simply by learning to use our brains in more diverse ways we can discover the master keys to unlocking the power of our creative imagination!

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Linguistic Programming (NLP) and author of ‘The NLP
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reader to master any area of their life with amazing speed.
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Life is energy. Money is energy. . . and there’s plenty of both!

The difference between being aware of our natural abundance and owning a hefty portion of it is one of the main spiritual lessons we come to the earth plane to learn. This process involves the art of transforming energy and using your thoughts and ideas for manifesting money.

We live in a 3-D world that reflects back to us the energy, words and thoughts we put out. Fortunately, we have a special protection. We can have thoughts and feelings that don’t materialize in front of our eyes immediately. This gives us the chance to learn the art of manifestation without getting hurt in the process.

We know that money is not rare and that abundance is natural. The fruit trees in the fall and the flowering plants in the Spring show us the lushness of life. It’s natural for us to have abundance of all that is beautiful and good in our life.

However, more often than not, we get in our own way when it comes to having both the natural abundance and money in our life. Our feelings of lack, despair and confusion negatively affect our energy and thus our ability to manifest what we want.

So, in order to manifest into our life the natural abundance that is rightfully ours, including money, we must learn to align and transform our energy in a way that will manifest our thoughts and ideas. . . including manifesting more money into our lives.

A good way to start is by reminding yourself there is loads of abundance and money on our earth plane. We have been programmed by the system to believe that there are shortages and lack and that it is normal to experience this. This programming instills fear in us and creates an energy blockage to our aligning ourselves with the flow of abundance. There is no shortage. Wrap your beliefs and feelings around thoughts of great abundance available to all.

If you can convince yourself at the very deepest level of your being that there is no lack, no unfairness, no discrimination and that making money isn’t hard, you can open yourself up to greater wealth. This is a simple trick of the mind and can open and align your energy to receiving the abundance that is rightfully yours.

If you are harboring any feeling that money is evil and that all rich people are dishonest and crooked, you need to drop this belief. Instead you need to come to an understanding that money is neutral. Like everything else, money is only an energy.

Money is good. Greed is not good. Abundance is natural and is spiritual.

Everything in life contains the Divine presence, including money. The moment you realize and accept that money is simply another form of energy and energy comes from our Divine Source, you will stop separating it from your life.

Focus on the joy of having a steady flow of money, creating more money and feeling like you deserve more wealth. You will start to almost automatically manifest more abundance into your life.

To make the manifestation process work for you, you have to put aside any ideas of lack. You have to become centered and energetically align to the solid symbols of all the abundance in life.

Take time to concentrate on all the things your consider to be manifestations of abundance. Look around you at the lushness of nature in life and remind yourself that your journey takes place on a planet that is full of everything you need.

Look at the various symbols of wealth and affirm that the abundance of this earth plane is spiritual and good. You have got to agree that abundance is natural. You must bring this agreement into your feelings. When you transform your energy vibration in regard to money, you will begin the process of manifesting more abundance of money into your life.

Money is a symbol we use to facilitate the gathering of experiences and memories. It assists in interactions with others and in our ability to love ourselves. Money also acts as a mirror in that it tells us stories about ourselves, if we choose to take a close look.

Yes, money is definitely an essential part of our spiritual journey. Because it is a necessity in our society, it forces us to be creative. Money forces us to step up and offer our energy to the world in a creative manner that in return allows money to flow into our lives. In doing this, you learn the art of transforming energy to manifest money.

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For over 15 years Charlsie has been consciously on (and off, on and off. . . now back on!) the path to transformation and greater awareness. Much of her time is spent observing nature, exploring metaphysics and pondering on the so-called mysteries of our Universe. Charlsie has read extensively about energy and the various modalities of energy work and is certified in all levels of Reiki.

I confess. I am a night owl and last night as my husband was preparing for bed, I
noticed his socks had a strange appearance. He walked toward me where I sat on
the couch. I could not believe my eyes.

The first words out of my mouth were, “Do you have Liquid Paper on your socks?
He responded, “No. I’m doing the best I can with what I have.” I confess we’ve
had a lot of month left at the end of our money. I thought I saw white dots on the
toes of his dark brown socks. However, the white dots I saw were actually socks
shining ever so brightly through the holes in his brown socks. He responded, “I
wear two pair of socks to keep my feet warm.” Although embarrassed, my thoughts
returned to his socks. I remembered the ease of his industrial strength toenails to
slash through his socks.

Funny thought because what connection does Liquid Paper, an office product, have
with socks? Perhaps he had spilled some of the white correction liquid on his socks.
After all, he had just told me his shirt organizer had accidentally gotten wet. When
I asked him how, he said, “I accidentally forgot and left it in my shirt pocket when
I took my shirt to the dry cleaners.” Curious now, I asked, “What did you lose?” He
casually remarked, “Nothing much, really, just a frequent buyer card at a bookstore,”
the first tragedy for me, a book lover. He continued, “A discount coupon for a haircut,”
the second tragedy for me, a coupon clipper. Then he added, “Your business card,”
the third tragedy for me; the card was mine. He turned around and smiled at me as
he was obviously pleased with his answer. “It’s okay,” he said. “Your business card
probably had Liquid Paper on it, too.”

Angela Scott
© February 22, 2007

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