One of the most wonderful gifts I was ever given as a child was a box full of long-play vinyl records of dozens of the world’s favorite fairy tales. I cannot possibly estimate the number of hours they spun out perils and predicaments, fairies and fiends, wishes and wonders to me, but I am certain […]
A Storybook Life
“It was straight out of a storybook!” my friend exclaimed. She was describing to me her visit to North Carolina, the state where I grew up. “There were so many old houses and white picket fences, chickens pecking around the yard and I just expected little children in neat, white clothing to come out of […]
The Stubborn Love of Imagination
When my oldest son was three and a half, he taught himself to read. He is that sort of person, one to take all the individual parts and put them together on his own. He does the same now with math equations, piecing the world together, while I try to give him the tools he […]
The Miracle of Imagination
One morning when my granddaughter Easton was three years old, she and her mom and I were driving to get donuts when she said, “A lion!” My daughter and I glanced back at Easton in her car seat, then followed her gaze and chubby finger pointing up to white clouds in the blue sky outside […]
Mythopoeic Grace
In September of 1931 J.R.R. Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, and C.S. Lewis took part in a late-night conversation at Oxford University. This was not only a pivotal moment in Lewis’s life (helping to convince him of the validity of Christianity), but also a well-chronicled moment for mythopoeic grace. Two of the great literary figures of the […]
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