Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Five year old Bennett is often amazed and imagines the most wonderful, and sometimes scary, things. Why aren't we older folks more often at wonder of the world around us.  Maybe many of the experiences don't seem novel to us, even if they are. Possibly our courage to follow our hearts and our intuition in the exploration of the wondrous has been overwhelmed by the scary . 

Recently, we and Bennett experienced the Maurice Sendak "Wild Things" exhibit at the Denver Art Museum.  Sendak had a courages imagination. He didn't let the scary overwhelm the wondrous. Instead he melded drawings and words together into a happy rumpus that would shame New Years Eve at Times Square.

Robert PT Coffin claimed "The most ordinary words have amazing life in them." Uncle Bernhard and Aunt Marilyn must have believed this because they wondrously loved books. Reading seemed to be their gateway to brave curiosity and life long learning. If we received Christmas gifts from Bernhard and Marilyn, the only thing for which there was no wonder, was what kind of gift was it? It was a book.  One year, Marilyn's gift to her twin sister Mildred was so large and heavy that it was thought it couldn't be a book. But it was. It was an Oxford Dictionary. You know, the kind that is almost too heavy for one person to manage, and commanded its own table. Maybe the intention of this dictionary gift was to provide all the ingredients required for a wondrous literary work. We only needed to concoct the recipe.  The dictionary was also a needed adjudicator in family Scrabble battles.