vol. 12, num. 4 :: 2013.02.15 — 2013.02.28
Imagination enables us to transform our current reality and empowers the passion to question the status quo. Increasingly, however, it seems that we are living in a world that commodifies imagination. We look to figures like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney as idolized imaginers, yet forget those path-blazing dissenters who yearn for justice, beauty and hospitality in our very neighborhoods. This week's topic focuses on re-claiming imagination through our everyday actions.
A story about how a lake brings a daughter, her father and her grandfather together.
Examining the double-edged sword of imagination.
Why comics and graphic novels are the perfect platform to depict biblical imagination.
A fictional story about what kids can teach their teachers.
A walk through a through a gallery of creativity, love, encouragement, generosity and friendship.
Living with faithful imagination.
On finding the energy to change the world through environmental practices.
Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.
Why building an elaborate imaginary world benefits the imaginative kid (and adult).
A review of a book about how creativity and imagination work.
What a good dose of imagination looks like on the ground in Three Rivers, Michigan.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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