Dear Creativity,
During the previous Chat & Play, I couldn’t find my collage journal. This week I was going to collage. I found the journal and I pulled out my bin of scraps — painted pieces and layers of papers from the insides of envelopes I have been saving.
I thought I’d just make a simple collage while we chatted. Something playful. Easy. But you had other ideas.
You nudged me, like you always do.
Layer it, you whispered.
Just see what happens.
So I layered. One piece, then another. And slowly, a landscape started to unfold — hills, a sky, a horizon line I hadn’t even meant to find. When I was mostly satisfied, I finally started to glue the pieces down. And it struck me: this is how you work, isn’t it?
You don’t usually hand me the whole picture at once. You scatter pieces in front of me — scraps, glimpses, moments — and you ask me to stay curious long enough to see what they might become.
It’s not just about collage.
It’s about ideas.
Projects. Dreams that start out feeling small or uncertain.
It’s about trusting that even the tiniest scraps are part of something bigger.
Thanks for reminding me (again) that layering is part of the magic. That clarity can come from play. And that sometimes, the most beautiful places appear when I’m not even trying to find them.
Innovatively yours,
Dr. Abigail
