" Meet this solemn query with a powerful, easy 'I must,' then build your life as per this requirement ; your entire life, even into its humblest and most unexcited hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse." - Rilke. We are creat-ures, so it is evident in the world around us that as a spider spins a web, a bird builds a nest, humans are possessed of a spiritual and biological remit to spin and build an arena of beauty and function.

The human excellence is the facility to make symbols.

Symbolism is the art of investing the world around us with meaning by expressing the invisible or unsubstantial thru plain or sensual illustration.

This is the most simple, the least unsettling definition of art and creativity. From this definition, we have come to believe and to totally accept without query that art belongs to those that paint the paintings, write the words, and mold the clay, into those representations of the unsubstantial and the invisible. Art has therefore been split into people who do and those that don't.

The reinstatement of art into each one of our lives, both in our capability to get and to recreate it, is to revisit living alongside meaning. Creativity is, like evolution, like all expansion and change, an irrepressible force in nature. Therefore far, only humans have tried to turn away from this call, and a case can be made that it is this turning away that is the reason for most of our discomfort, suffering, and longing. This suffering is the results of confusion and misdirection, not hapless circumstance.

Art, like science, philosophy, and politeness, is our safest defense against the insupportable weight of all that we do not know. If we could disperse the weight among us voter artists, come up with a more inclusive outlook, we could lighten the aspiring load of stupidity.

In the broadest sense, art is a reply in whatever form it takes--an expression of the love and beauty and fear as it is given to us thru the obvious bounty of Naturethat pulls us further out of the mire. Creativity is anything that fosters that indwelling spirit, any creation or activity that advances the progression of the unimpedable energy of expansion that is life. The replication of that love and beauty, the relief that eases the terror, or the release supplied by the recognizing of that apprehension, is our task, is the way of art and creativity, a whole-some reaction to existence. Whether or not you are a fire fighter, a pathologist, a babysitter, or a banker, you have to be an artist. You may make a response to the grace developing out of creaturehood toward a bigger man, toward God, and remain brave as well as awe-struck by the vast implications. In the meeting of this challenge, you'll be recognized by a light in the iris of those you come across, as unusual. Therefore who we are becomes linked with the world, and it is given meaning and purpose by what we do with this link. We start with a sense that there is a thing inside us that must act and express.

We start by going outside the unhappiness we have experienced at having this something repressed, deterred, buried. We start with the thin person with the fat body, the sober, healthy being beneath the addict's skin, the lover within our neglected hearts. We start with the hope and the longing of the creative force inside ourselves.