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Daring to be Whole-Hearted

June 4, 2018 by Kathleen Shumate 1 Comment

Children get excited. When my two-year-old, raised thus far in squirrel-less Taiwan, first saw one of the lavishly-tailed critters in our American backyard, he shrieked at the top of his lungs and convulsed with joy. When my kids find a gecko or toad, they concentrate their full energy on creating its very own home, playground, […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting

Imagination and Evil

May 30, 2016 by Kathleen Shumate 8 Comments

A few years ago my husband and I started collecting storybooks to introduce the classic tales to our kids. As we searched and read, we found a strange disconnect between the stories we remembered and what was being published. In one version of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, it turns out that the troll who […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Valuing Imagination

Of Quasars and Nebulae, Cabbages and Kids

February 29, 2016 by Kathleen Shumate 2 Comments

I am pregnant with our fourth child. Our five-year-old daughter all but demanded, upon threat of secession, a baby sister instead of a third brother. But the grainy ultrasound revealed our coming son, miniaturely and precisely detailed, wiggling arms and legs at the very joy of having them. Within me, God is sculpting a delicate […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting

True Fiction

October 5, 2015 by Kathleen Shumate 10 Comments

We were gathered around our dinner table with friends and a home-cooked feast, and the conversation turned to reading. My friend mentioned that in the past twenty years he has read, at most, three fiction books—out of hundreds of nonfiction books. “With so many things to learn in the world, I don’t have time for […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Valuing Imagination

What Isn’t There, But Should Be

August 31, 2015 by Kathleen Shumate 4 Comments

My husband and I sat together watching a sweet movie where a relationship was unfolding between a young girl, an aspiring story-teller, and her new neighbor, an older disillusioned novelist. She asked him to teach her about imagination, and maybe her earnestness inspired him, because he had a small creative spark left. He told her […]

Filed Under: Faith & Vision, Fostering Imagination

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