THE ESSAY
Creative Energy YIELDS Haters and Naysayers but Also Success
I was just a preteen when I first started making marionettes. I was fascinated by them and visited the community library every day after school to read more about how to construct them. It was about six months later, in a late summer of the mid-1970s, that my first marionette emerged. It was beautiful, at least to me, but my siblings rolled their eyes and mouthed off negative comments. I did not care what they said, for something had happened within, and that something is called creative energy. It is the motivating factor that propels every artist to keep refining their work.
And as my legs grew longer, more marionettes and puppets emerged from my makeshift pantry and living room closet workshops. And along with the new puppets came even greater criticism and name-calling from the other boys in my neighborhood, but I stayed on the creative path and channeled my energy into improving the puppets and marionettes. Then one day it occurred to me that my creations needed clothing changes, and this fact proved to be a conundrum that was not easily solved…
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Inspiring, being a creative visionary is always challenging. Never be discouraged!
I love the story. I love the journey I was taken on while reading the story.