We don't need to spend all of our resources on food and shelter as the people of many countries do. It is very wonderful, really. We are a very privileged people. Our lives can be enriched by the good things we can buy and own and use. But, as we know, things are not the only possessions that can enrich our lives.
Creativity can also enrich our lives.
A flower, I've heard it said, or a tree is not the only thing worth making. Creativity belongs to us as well as to whoever or whatever might have started life on earth. C.S. Lewis and Paul Vitz, whose words I read this morning, are two strict Christian writers who would have us believe that we should never strive to be creative, that all we do or say or make with our hands should be simple reflections of the world as created by their god. I suppose to be called middle-class is the worst thing that can be said about us. But he holds up wealth and intelligence and integrity as more important than creativity.