Creative inspiration from Nebraska

June 26th, 2009

My sister-in-law is one incredible woman. She is currently finishing her degree in psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Oh, this is after already receiving a Sociology degree from UCSB. It’s a long story..but basically, she started college in Nebraska, playing soccer for them. In her 3rd year, due to issues with the soccer program she transferred to UCSB. We were all excited to have her closer to home! Anyway, when She got to UCSB, she couldn’t receive the same psych degree – they don’t correlate between schools – and so she changed to a soc degree at UCSB. She graduated from there in 2008. But, she was only about 15 credits short from getting her psych degree from Nebraska now, so she decided to go back this summer and finish her degree. Needless to say, I am super proud of her, although I miss her so much. She is an incredible sister-in-law and friend. We have been keeping in touch via email and phone, and I even set her up a blog so she could write about life there for the rest of our friends and family to read. Most of the emails are about life in general (family gossip, life in Nebraska, work, etc), but last night, she sent me a message on Facebook that I just had to share:

*Side note: The only people in my family who actually read my blog is my parents, and it’s only because I’m an only child . The whole family knows what I do and what I write about, but don’t read it.

Hey lady, I’m reading for my psych class and I ran across something that i thought you may find interesting. I know you like to write about creativity and this could play into that. Anyways, here ya go:

“No wonder that the child shows an insatiable curiosity. He has the whole world to discover. Education and learning, while on the one hand furthering this process of discovery, on the other hand gradually brake and finally stop completely. There are relatively few adults who are fortunate enough to have retained something of the child’s curiosity, his capacity for questioning and for wondering. The average adult ‘knows all the answers,’ which is exactly why he will never know even a single answer.”

I know its random, but I especially liked the last few sentences. I feel like the average individual fails to be able to maintain that sense of juvenile creativity that got them here in the first place.

I have no idea if this is in any way pertinent to your blogs and such, but I figured you would enjoy it none the less. Miss you lots ?

See why I adore her? Thanks Katie…I miss you too!