Christmas for cowboys

On creative permission, imagination, and cowboys

‘Dashing through the snow, you, too!’ 

My three-year-old daughter’s embellished lyrics, for our first homemade Christmas songs, seventeen years ago. We’re still going strong, and this year I found ‘Christmas for Cowboys’ in a 1981 Reader’s Digest songbook. 

It’s written by someone who makes no claim to cowboy life at all. Does it matter? Nope. What does matter is it evokes exactly the right feeling. 

This week’s Creativity Helm newsletter is about creative permission: you have my full permission to pretend to be a cowboy.

Go to the newsletter to hear my version of Christmas for Cowboys 🐎