There are a few beliefs that sit at the core of this newsletter. The first, and probably the most important, is that creativity is everywhere — and in all of us.

I owe that approach to this month’s Creativity Q+A guest, Andrea Hannah. Andrea is an author, astrologer, and a very dear friend. Her most recent book, The Maker’s Guide to Magic, gives the most beautiful definition of being a creative that I, personally, have ever read:

We have an entire generation of people who think that they aren’t creative at all because they don’t fit [certain] tropes. They think that because they like to paint houses instead of canvases, or make meals instead of music, they don’t have a creative bone in their body. And that is just not true.

I can honestly say that I have never come across someone who could not create. Maybe they hadn’t yet acquired the skills they needed to be able to make what’s in their imagination, or maybe they didn’t feel confident enough to follow their creative passions in earnest, but every single person was able to make something. And that, at its core, is what it means to be a creative. You are someone who makes something. (Maker’s Guide to Magic, Introduction)

If you are someone who makes something, you can use that creativity for good. I’ve been lucky enough to learn from Andrea for the past several years, and I’m delighted that she was willing to share some of her time for this month’s newsletter. We talked about creativity, spirituality, capitalism, pedagogy, and living tenderly in our decidedly un-tender world.

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