For me, the moderator between all things is creativity.
This photograph is one of my very first stabs at creative expression through photography, an artform that I now have a very real relationship with. It was sunlight and trees as viewed through a quartz crystal, taken with a basic digital camera.
It's the place where every range of emotion, experience, and insight come to meet and make new things; it's also the place where I can abstractly reflect on that which I could not otherwise give voice to. Besides, it's exciting to learn a new and novel skill and to develop further mastery of skills I already have --there's always more to learn! Being creative brings novelty into my life, wards off stagnation, and also makes me happy.
Creativity is where I bring new things into the world around me, and where I contribute to myself and others. For me, my creative process creates an internal vaccuum which becomes filled with inspiration and metaphor; I feel connected to a sublimity in myself when I'm creating.