True creativity is an investment into the moment, and how much we are willing to put forth to bring our ideas and dreams to life.

Every minute of every moment of everyday we are creating our existence. From our simple emails to our purest art, a gentle embrace to the deepest most passionate kiss. It's the willingness and intent to inspire anything into reality through our unique gifts and perspective.

The first moment I can recall being inspired to create was in 1979. I was always envious of those who could draw realistically, yet never thought I had the talent to measure up... so I didn't. I didn't try, or invest or be present in the creative projects in class. I left that to the "talented." Until that day in forth grade when the new lunch menu came out. Bright canary yellow, all the days of the month mapped out with their respective meals. Hamburger Wednesday, Pizza Friday, and then in the right margin was this tall illustration of a Cowboy.

Who knows why, maybe it was because it was Fall and we were practicing Square Dancing. Anyway, somehow, for some reason that Cowboy on the yellow paper struck me, so I drew it, without thinking, without tracing, and without questioning my "talent". Very simply. It was my first conscious experience of embracing a moment of this world that I was attracted to, taking it up through my senses, and then reproducing my version, my vision of that instance.

It is forever imprinted as a turning point and I wouldn't be who I am today if that seemingly simple trivial moment had not occurred.

That cowboy, our art, your dreams are the purest forms of this existence waiting to unfold through our interpretation of them, and we can bring it all to life if we just invest and truly believe in what we put out there.