The Kid is Imagination's Superpower: Smack Dab in the Imagination by Dia Calhoun
Imagination as superpower? That's our theme on Smack Dab this month, but I write--muse, wander, romp--through the fields of imagination every month here on the 23rd. So instead of writing about imagination being one of kids' superpowers, I want to propose the reverse--Imagination's superpower is kids. Every imagination is out rolling around gathering dust, daisies, chipmunks, bootlaces, ideas, notions--you get the idea--like a giant tumbleweed, until at last the imagination crashes into a kid. The kid is imagination's agency--the fingers, feet, voice--that brings imagination to life. And not only that, as in any perfect friendship or creative collaboration, the kid and the imagination complement each other and go beyond what either could do alone. So, the next time you meet a bored kid, tell them that somewhere out there is a lonely imagination who is longing to find them. There is a story there.
