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As September rolls around, our thoughts
turn toward Fall—the perfect time to go
hiking now that the weather starts to turn
a little cooler. I was fortunate to be able
to get in some day hikes in Vermont a
month or so ago. I tried out my new hik-
ing poles and loved them. They helped
with my balance on steep rocky uphills
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and helped my arms get a little workout,
thus taking some of the load off my legs.
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Part of the reward for the effort expended
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to hike up a mountain is the scenic view from the top—in summer, a beautiful, ver-
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dant green in all directions. I kept thinking though “Got to come back and do this in
the Fall when the colors will be spectacular!”
But I digress. This month’s theme isn’t Hiking, but rather Creative Expression. As
Editor kids, we’re constantly using our creativity with all sorts of creative crafts and proj-
Mary Karnis ects in art class, designing something for a science fair, writing a book report, and
naturally making up games and stories as we’re playing. Our main feature article,
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Make Your Life a Work of Art, by Linda Sechrist, on page 30, makes us question what
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happens to all this creativity when we get older. It seems it doesn’t disappear; it just
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gets buried, sometimes under loads of adult responsibilities. So, often we need to
dig deep to excavate our hidden talents. And we have to get out of the mindset of
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thinking that only artists are truly creative. As the article stresses: “Creativity is about
artful living, not just making art.” We’re actually using our creativity every time we
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try doing something a different way than we routinely do it. The article profiles some
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different creative types, such as Julia Cameron, known to numerous writers for her
insightful book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. This book is
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We also have a great interview with Debbie Ford, known for her books and
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work exploring our “dark or shadow side.” As she notes, Carl Jung, the great Swiss
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psychologist, said it best: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures
of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Sometimes growing up, we repress
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