Today's inspiration comes from a child's holiday drawing. My friend's daughter, Tiana, always draws a holiday themed picture for her mother's cubical wall and they always make us smile. This time of year a "hand turkey" made it's way to our office and we all smiled at it's whimsy. Bright colors, happy clouds, the drawing of a joyful six-year-old little girl. Earlier in the month, another co-worker had mentioned that we never do any fun, group, cube decorating anymore. In the past we've done things such as everyone bringing in a childhood photo and hanging it outside our cubes by our name tags. It served as a reminder that every one of us was once sweet, innocent, and unencumbered by doubts in life.
As I looked at Tiana's drawing I thought about the first time a grade-school teacher showed me the magic of using my own hand to draw a turkey for a Thanksgiving project and how talented I felt with my new tool. It came to me what our new, silly, cubical project should be, everyone make their own hand turkey.
So far no one else has done it and I haven't been so great at promoting the idea but I still have two days to get the ball rolling :-)
Even with such a simple project I still fought the judge of my adult self. Do male and female turkeys have the red gobbler? I started to Google and was instantly disgusted with my need to know for sure. I made my drawing, simple, colorful, and with kissing turkeys. I am a hopeless romantic. What can I say?
If you are so inclined, let your inner child out and indulge in a carefree hand turkey of your own. If you do, I'd love to see it. It doesn't matter if you are a child or an adult. It's almost impossible not to smile in the presence of our four-feathered friends.
wonderful post...gets me excited for an annual event we hold with our kids and whoever we have over for Thanksgiving - everyone is given a sheet of paper and invited to draw their own turkey hand...prizes are awarded for best theme turkey and a variety of other fun categories we come up with - try it out as it's great fun after a big meal
ReplyDeleteI love this - so pretty and romantic :-) It is good to just shut the inner critic away and create like children do: with no expectations or judgement. Fab reminder - thanks.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for stoppin by my blog recently. It is great to connect up with people through aedm.
Kat :-)