Literally Dreaming About Pie

Are Your Creative Juices Peachy?

What are you dreaming up lately?

Our creative juices: peachy! OK, that’s corny, and it’s true. Sweet juices dripping from ripe peaches are part of what make a peach pie so good. But how about your personal creative juices? What makes them flow for you?

We’re all gifted in something. Each of us has things we love to do that are creative – from gardening in your own yard to organizing a community garden, or raising healthy children, writing poetry, teaching at the community college, making a pie from scratch, playing an instrument, leading productive meetings, being an athlete, or making a video. Our gifts are whatever absorbs us, takes our complete attention for a while, makes us feel alive and successful – regardless of what anyone else says about what we’re doing.

What situations encourage you to be creative? What environment do you want or need to support being creative? Please share your ideas and thoughts with the rest of us! I’ll post what people are saying if you’ll send your version of what supports your creative juices to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Sept. 15^th.

There can be a tension around being creative, especially when we’re doing something new or when we put expectations on ourselves about the outcome.

The truth: I’m nervous about the pie contest, which is coming up Sept. 18^th here in NM. It’s that time when I literally dream about pie. The other night it was an upside-down candied orange pie.

Pie comes up when I meditate. It comes up when I’m walking in the neighborhood. In conversation. In a hardware store. Yikes! There’s no escaping the tension and attention of pie right now in my life.

And there is a fun part to all of this: the creativity. Ideas come popping in and they play well with one another, running this way and that, jumping and whistling to get attention, like kids with the answer, waving their hands to be called upon in class.

So, tell me what it is that grabs your attention, that wants to be created, and what supports that. I think the world needs lots of creativity now, wrapped in fun and good humor, to see us through challenging times. We need things that unite us, like art, gardens, music, words written and spoken, and pie. Always pie!

Rebecca Jo Dakota