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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 Leprechaun Clown on Human Growth Hormone.

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

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Moving right along. . . .

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There was an origami table crowded with young children!  I elbowed my way in and parked my hiney next to a 10 year-old.  Adults play too, you know!

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The directions were labeled as "Expert", but since this was child's play, I figured I could handle it.

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Uh . . . . no.  I was wrong.  And since I'm adult, I can admit that.  :-D

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Let's see, there was also live music to soak in, homemade instruments to play, sidewalk art to jump into just like in Mary Poppins (Oh, how I wish that were true!), a ten foot tall Lego cactus which I had fantasies of knocking down . . . .

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I am not sure what overcame me -- perhaps it was because the place was crawling with wee ones -- but I actually verbalized to Melanie, "Wouldn't it be funny if little Johnny got loose from his mom and demolished that sucker?"

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Melanie looked at me as if I had gone mad.

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I have a warped sense of humor.

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Moving right along . . . .

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I found this amusing as well:  Kids spazzing out at the cactus instrument thingie.

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See little Janie wielding that cactus branch?  She was trying to hit someone with it while mom was completely oblivious. Heh heh heh.

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Warped, I tell you!

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Upon exiting the premises, two of the oldest kids at the festival left their marks on the chalkboard cactus.  (I live in a desert, peeps.  Thus, the plethora of cacti both real and fake.)

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Were Melanie and I inspired to get out there and CREATE?

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Perhaps.

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We used to be singing partners, and we've talked ad nauseum about going out on the road for a World Tour.

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That is a joke.

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But Melanie and I <em>did</em> talk about recording a few of our old duets.

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I smell a future playdate.  You will be the first to hear of it when we get our act together and take it to the studio.

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What do you want to create at this point in time?  Please share in the comments section below.

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