You already have everything you need.

Being creative is what makes you creative.

It's easy to think you need the special tools first — the good scissors, the pretty paper, a whole drawer of supplies — before you're allowed to begin. You don't. A cereal box and an ordinary pair of scissors are enough. Fewer toys, more play.

And once you begin, something quietly shifts. An empty tissue box stops being rubbish — you start to see a pocket in it, a little tag, the cover of a journal. Junk mail, a paper bag, an old magazine: suddenly all of it is full of possibility. That's the real gift of it — not the saving, the seeing.