I is for Imagination

I is for imagination. Imagination is a good thing and without it we wouldn't have the books we love or the movies we run out to watch or even set the DVR to record our favorite shows in case we aren't home.  Children have imagination that runs rampant when they are small but as they get older sometimes it gets lost in the world of video games or television shows. I love being able to create things and using my imagination even if it doesn't turn out right or the way I thought it should but that’s the fun in being creative and imaginative. Sometimes what we think is going to go one way might actually go another and is even better.

I love to read and when I pick up books like Eloisa James’ Three Weeks with Lady X; it takes me into a world that I would never have encountered if I hadn't opened up the book. I love the interaction between Lady India and Thorn and the letters were my favorite.  I have started reading, My Soul to Keep, by my wonderful friend Valerie J Prucha and with her worlds I am taken back to Albuquerque and the beautiful scenery and the characters that she has created are so fun to read about.

My favorite shows like Criminal Minds, Face Off, and Pawn Stars are wonderful because they can pull of some amazing things and there are sometimes when I am so interested in the subject that I want to go research. I am working on my book right now and so my imagination is having fun with the characters and the scenery but I have to do some more research to make it accurate.

When my son was little I loved his imagination and the things he could create on paper and the stories behind his drawings. When I was in college I worked in a day care center where I watched three and four year olds. They were the best for stories and imagination. There was one little boy, who is not so little now, that was named Chance and he was such a cutie. He had blonde hair and blue eyes and was the sweetest thing ever. He said when he grew up he wanted to be a cowboy. I hope he realized his dream.

I always imagined my life differently, when I was young I wanted to be a journalist first and travel all over the world and then later it transferred to teaching and my love of writing was still there but not at the forefront of teaching others. Now it has come forward again and I hope I can let my imagination run wild again.

I love walking along the road by our house and looking around and trying to imagine what might be hidden under a pile of mulch that is pretty high or just looking around and figuring out the people’s lives and what they do for a living and how they act behind closed doors. I could sit at a coffee shop for hours and people watch and make up stories and see how close I get if I ever got the nerve to ask them. I am just glad I was blessed with an imagination and that it has completely disappeared. Now to keep it going with my writing and cake decorating and see what wonderful worlds I can create.