Imagine

It's Friday... you know what that means....  Five Minute Friday!

Imagine

GO.

A stick is suddenly a large paddle that takes us on a canoe in the clouds... we have a mission. We are searching for monsters. Not mean ones, "the nice kind, the ones that really aren't real." We take off, we ride with a puppy, a lion, a blue puppy and a blue blanket. Sometimes a purple bunny named Sophie joins us too. As we fly the clouds take shape- a dog, a duck, a bear.  We soar fighting the monsters through our back yard wonderland. And then we get them. And we smile. And we fall to the ground laughing. And we go in for a snack because that adventure was amazing and built more memories than our tummies can handle.

And I grasp this memory so tight that I almost squeeze it to death. Because this is what childhood is made of. This is the part we grow out of. The part where we see a stick and it's nothing more than a stick. It fell from the tree and must be picked up from the yard. Another task. But when did we lose the possibilities in the ordinary things?  When did we get too big to make those ordinary objects something extraordinary that is never wrong because when you live in a world of possibilities, nothing can be wrong. When we imagine, when we dream... that is where life begins. That is where we remember that we can make a difference in the world. When we live in the world we imagine can be possible, it becomes a beautiful world filled with all the potential of the future. Dream it. See it. DO IT.

STOP.