The Creative Skipper

Growing up, I was a terribly creative child. I would build things from paper, draw, imagine, and play to my heart’s content. Countless hours were spent on these projects. Oddly, somewhere in my adult life (probably around college) I abandoned most of this for a career in technology.

As I’ve spoken about before, technology only gives a left-brained person the appearance of creativity. The standards are set by governing bodies. The product manufacturers follow the standards. The companies set the best-practices. All that is left for the technology architects is to simply recognize requirements and implement a solution within the budgetary requirements of the client.

Recently, I uncovered a number of my old project notebooks. These simple spiral-bound notebooks housed all my drawings and ideas from my youth. Thankfully, my parents saw fit to keep them. When they delivered my personal effects to me after I moved into my adult life, all this history and creativity lay dormant in my garage.

My extracurricular activities still include a number of artistic cultural events including: theater, dance, and galleries. This appreciation for someone else’s art form, however, has done nothing to augment my grown as a human being. I have no outlet for my own creativity.

I began The Urban Skipper to help reenergize my creative pursuits. The desire to write is much more compelling in my adult life and this blog shall be an outlet for those creative juices. While our primary focus is to chronicle my journey from land lubber to boat owner, going forward you can expect to see some “off topic” posts. Though I find it fun and a touch endearing, I can assure you that not every post here will be titled “The (fill-in-the-blank) Skipper”. My posted writings will take the form of: poetry, short essays, and other creative endeavors.

I hope that publishing my writings leads me improve and continue further. Your feedback, through Facebook, will drive more personal growth on my part. In this “Look At Me!” world of social media, we can only hope that our lives will improve through encouragement, openness, and personal reflection.