Snowflakes

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. - Eugene Delacroix

I think this is a challenge that shuts down many a creative person:  They have an idea, they start to work on it and then they see something or hear about something that is similar to their own idea.  And they think, "Well scratch that. It's already been done."  But therein lies the problem.  It has all been done before. Every story ever told has been told.  Every role has been played.  There is nothing unique to bring to anything, right?  Wrong.  Because there has never been another you.  We're snowflakes.  We're comprised of the same elements but shaped in our own way.  Which makes our own stories, our own ideas, our own inventions, worth telling and exploring and creating.

Speaking of snowflakes, here's a blast from the recent past.  Past Christmas, that is: