Creativity leads to self-sufficiency

Hello Lovely,
Every thing  I want to teach and share is aimed at this realization.
By suggesting that creative arts are indeed important to cultivate in our modern day, I hope to inspire others (especially the less-inclined-to-be-creative-type people) to learn a craft. If every person would just experiment and find a craft or skill that they could develop a talent for, then every person would be able to feel that they had something to offer to the world.


The "end of the world" proclamations and jokes are ever abounding. More and more people are seeking out how to live outside of a city, how to grow gardens, how to make food from scratch, and essentially to adapt into a lifestyle of homesteading or "prepping". None of these are unworthy goals. All are indeed wonderful and essential skills and goals to have. The threats and the "what-ifs" are always there and even seem to be increasing as time passes.
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Computer Sciences are also a very real skill that is required in this modern day. It is nothing to sneeze at. But imagine, we lost the ability to use our modern technologies? Having a trade-skill in that scenario would be priceless. The great thing is that while we have it...we should use it! Learning and gaining knowledge has never been easier. The internet is a valuable tool for those that seek to be educated.
Will it ever happen? That's in God's hands.  If I (and suggestively "you") don't take the steps to cultivate some of these skills into my (our) everyday living and teach them to friends, neighbors, children, and grandchildren, then the traditional skills that our ancestors built this nation on, will die out. In the event of an "end of the world" scenario, too many will not know how to build it back up again. We have forgotten how to be creators, how to imagine something and then have the skill set to be able to build it.


Our best friend's recently built their own home from the ground up. It is the cutest little dry cabin in the woods ever! My husband and I helped a bit with the construction, and all of us learned what it takes to build a home as it was constructed piece by piece. We had the worst winter in years, and that little hand-built, owner engineered house withstood it all and kept a family of seven warm and cozy. I have to say we are all feeling pretty good about that, and it proved that we really can do things ourselves. 
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Happy Day
Heidi