Too often we get caught in a box. We only let ourselves become creative in a certain venue. Sure we are thinking outside one box but inside a slightly bigger box. Jewelry has been like that for me. When I see myself as a jewelry maker I put so much of my energy there and try very hard not to become "distracted" by other venues. But as I am limited by resources and space and time I find more of my ideas reaching to other corners and bringing different pieces into the mix.
So I find myself saying "Hey wouldn't it be cool if...
* they ran the Iditrod as dual teams and teams could share dogs, but they must come into the check points one after the other. It would be an interesting race with many strategies.
* I could use whiskey in a dry rub for smoking pork.
* I could create an erector set using ordinary hardware
* I could use plastic lattice to create enough garden space for a real garden here this year.
* I could get that article I want to write actually down on epaper.
* I could figure out ways to recruit more people to help with the bazaar in April.
* ...
Is there really any such thing as thinking outside the box. If the box is big enough would you even notice you were still in it?
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