Yesterday afternoon I was tucked into a theater that wasn’t anything like I experienced in Europe, but that was the point. To enjoy all that Vancouver has to offer and just enjoy, not compare. So as I sat in my red velvet chair watching the orchestra swaying back and forth to the music they played and acrobats fly in red fabric from the ceiling I felt deep appreciation well up inside me.

It was an appreciation and a realization that in each of us is this amazing ability to be creative, to express ourselves in so many different forms and that we feel completely alive when we do it. As the performance came to a close I stood up and clapped as loud and hard as I could, showing them I loved that they expressed themselves before me in ways I didn’t consider before.

And as I stood there clapping, it made me wonder, what makes expressing ourselves such a strong desire for some of us. That we can’t go a day without creating something: jewelry, photography, writing, designing a building, a new dance move, a paint brush to canvas, a lyric to music. There are countless ways to express ourselves and our creativity and I am curious, what is your creative expression? And why do you long to do it each day?