Musings on Creativity: Dancing Will Set You Free

Isabel Allende is a mesmerizing author. I have been reading her newest novel this weekend, “Island beneath the Sea”. Ms. Allende is a riveting story teller with an historical fiction bent. One thing that has struck me about this novel is her vivid humane description of slavery in the late 1700′s, early 1800′s in Haiti and New Orleans. This book is interesting, and definitely worth the read.
Keeping with my interest in leading a creative life, a quote that has impressed me from the main character, Tete, goes like this: ‘Before I knew how to walk, and when I could just balance myself on two legs he invited me to lose myself in the music, the way you do in a dream. “Dance, dance, Zarid, the slave who dances is free…while he is dancing, ” he told me. I have always danced’.
Dance, paint, sew, compose, it will set you free!

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