Have you heard about the Cultural Creatives?

All my life I have felt a bit out of place, like the shoe doesn’t totally fit, and lately (really, over the last several years) added to that I’ve been feeling a bit of malaise where my creative spark used to be, a lack of inspiration. It feels like a rub, a chafing, a bit of discomfort. A perfect time to contemplate some of the larger questions in my life. Chafing is perfect for that, isn’t it?

Don’t get me wrong, I will always LOVE creating a home, for others and for myself. I love being of service in my business and in my personal life. But in the big picture, something feels like it’s missing!

In this period of transition that our world is in I feel that there needs to be something more, something bigger then ourselves to contribute, provide, give back. Something beyond what I’ve always done… something…just…more. AND, I’ve felt an internal pressure that it needs to be done NOW!

My creative spark, image vial censemaking

The one feeling I’ve been able to identify is a deep need to “use less, give more” in all aspects of life. A need for sustainability on every level, from health, to money, to food, to our homes. I’ve been feeling an inner need to “step up to the plate” so to speak, yet I’m not completely sure what that plate looks like.

Recently, through a friend on Facebook I came across the movie, Cultural Creatives. Initially published as a book in 2000, The Cultural Creatives is written by by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson.

Frigyes Fogel, is the project founder for the movie, with interviews of the authors of the book as well as groups all over the world who are deeply involved in this movement! Fogel writes that making the movie changed his life, and I can tell you that watching it has changed mine! Here are some of the premises of a Cultural Creative person as defined on Wikipedia and in the movie:

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