<a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10196" rel="attachment wp-att-10196"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-10196" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" src="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/P3170002-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>I was surfing around the Internet one day and came across a celebration whose name stopped me in my tracks:

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #0000ff;"><strong>The Festival of Creativity.</strong></span>

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How could anyone even remotely creative NOT attend a festival with a title like that?

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What is a Festival of Creativity, you ask?  I entertained the same question.  My fellow creative friend, Melanie, and I took it upon ourselves to explore the answer.

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First of all, there were mimes.  Lots of them.  Colorful ones.  Mimes are (thankfully) not as creepy as clowns, although they are still mildly unnerving.

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I believe that my sister and I suffer post-traumatic clown trauma because we belong to the generation that grew up watching <strong><em><a href="http://www.smashinglists.com/top-10-famous-badass-clowns/" target="_blank">Poltergeist</a></em></strong>.

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Which is why I tried to remain calm when I stumbled across The Clown on Human Growth Hormone.

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I dealt with my panic by taking a photo from an interesting angle.  Humor is very healing.

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