Creativity and observation are intimately connected. When I taught creative writing, most of my students would arrive with the notion that creativity came from the head and the heart. Which it does … but only to a degree. It relies even more on observation, in my opinion. Because creative thought, movement, activity is a response to experience of ourselves in relationship. To our environment. To each other. To ourselves. Here I’m observing - and creating- by playing around with two simple variab