“There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.” KnowsWellsChildrenArtHomeJobsMovingCultureParentLossAttentionKnow HowCreativeExampleTaughtModelsFavorsErasGrievingMourningOver ItGet BackGet OverFast FoodClosureBack To WorkBandages Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.” PeopleKnowsKindRealPastParentDarknessCreativeRichViolenceEmotionalBrotherMomDadCircumstancesMy FamilyAssumingMy MomNuclearHorribleMy BrotherCountyAugustMom And DadHystericalCreative LifeExtended FamilyGreat ParentsNuclear Families Author:Tracy Letts
“[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.” SchoolParentCreativeGeniusLessonsPeersFormalRecipesHomeschoolingCreative Freedom Author:Raymond S. Moore
“To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.” ArtKidsAbleParentCreativeMomDadMy MomJust BeingMom And DadCreative ArtCool Things Author:Brooklyn Sudano
“My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.” PlayUsedStuffParentCreativityCreativeTelevisionHorseWoodsHuts Author:Jan Brett
“When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.” WayForceParentCreative Author:SZA
“I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.” KidsActorsParentKnownCreativeEnvironmentStage Author:Marion Cotillard
“People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHumansParentInterestHuman BeingsCreativeRaisedPatternsMysteriousCuriousImpulseAtmosphereMechanismSpontaneousDeliciousShrinksAdventurousTickHuman Psyche Author:Jeff Goldblum