I celebrate a little on the last day of January because it’s
a day dedicated to art! Not only art, but art that inspires your HEART! With Pinterest taking over the world, we all have the
ability to find and release our inner artist. Remember that craft project you
have been dreaming about (you probably pinned it to your “For a Rainy Day”
board on Pinterest!), but you just haven’t yet tackled? It may not be raining,
but today is the day!
Remember how much fun finger painting was when you were
little? You’d smother your chubby little fingers in paint and smear it all over
your paper (or maybe the wall). Your eyes lit up with every color you added. To
the average eye it was a big blob of brown, but to you it was you and your dog
running through the yard with the wind in your hair. Maybe it was you and your
sister building sandcastles on the beach. Whatever it was—it inspired you! The
image warmed your heart.
Let yourself return to that place!
I’ve always been what some call “artsy fartsy.” My husband
doesn’t understand what I did with all my time in school if I wasn’t playing
sports. When I wasn’t driving my sister crazy (or having her drive me places)
or helping my parents sprout gray hairs,
I was drawing, painting or acting in school plays. I may have graduated and
landed a “real job,” but my creative side steals the spotlight in my day-to-day
life. As a member of the Research and Evaluation team at the SC Campaign, I
work with numbers all day. I love numbers, but I love the picture they paint
even more. I’m always trying to find ways to present and display data so the
rest of our team not only understands the numbers, but can use the data to make
decisions. When I’m not performing data nerd duties at the office, I’m bending
wire and playing with beads to make jewelry for my shop, reSLICEd . I like to keep my hands busy and my mind
inspired.
by Jordan Slice, Evaluation Associate, SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
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