One of the joys of getting older is in still being surprised by yourself. As a child, I rather quickly became a practical, serious one. I used to love art class, but once it became an elective, it was no longer an option. Playing the violin lasted at most a year beyond art class. Eventually, the only creative outlet I did use was writing and that has managed to last most all my life in some form, though in more recent years, mostly as professional genre.
So it was rather a stunning revelation that I still liked a broad range of creative arts. Even more stunning was that I often like what I make.
So, when recently I'd been asked by several folks unconnected to each other, if Mojoz's Craft Night was still meeting, I figured that it was time to try again. All the creative play people engage in touch upon a vast array of needs. Creative, spiritual, recreational, developmental, exploration and any other incentive with which a person creates something, it's often a solitary endeavor. But if social can be added to the mix, everything is that much more creative, spiritual, recreational, developmental or exploratory. And it's a lot more fun too!
Mojoz's is at the corner of Culver and Albany in Utica.
2 comments:
Hey Maimun, you're entitled to like what you make, certainly the eraser carvings are magnificent.
Say, were you watching when the recent Mars mission landed? My daughter & son-in-law were with us in Maine when it was going on and he had the NASA site on his computer, otherwise I probably wouldn't have been tuned in, but it was amazing being able to have the news as soon as the people who did it.
I haven't seen anything on the presidential nomination contest here. Were you conflicted? Will you be working enthusiastically for Obama? I've been supporting him all along, and Arlene likes him a lot. I do think that in the future a candidate's gender will be a non-issue.
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