by Dan Hunter | Jul 20, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
Don’t get the big head. My father used to say that to me. I assume that he meant no one likes a swell head, an arrogant, cocky person. We all need humility—some more than others. But, as for the big head, it’s too late. Human beings are born with big heads. Our...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 20, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
40,000 years ago, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play. The band was Homo sapiens (our species) at approximately the same time—give or take thousands of years—that our ancestors left the savannas of Africa and crossed into Asia and Europe. Homo sapiens spread across...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 14, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
Every child is an artist. Their early drawings all have a bright yellow sun above smiling stick-like figures standing among loopy red flowers on a green line—the edge of the earth. There might even be a few dabs of blue for the sky. Shades of crayon brilliance. Are...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 14, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
Sometime before we left tricycles for bicycles, my brother and I played “men.” I was Mr. Black and he was Mr. Brown. We made phone calls and went to work. We turned our tricycles upside down, cranking the pedals by hand to make “popcorn.” Under the porch, the six...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 6, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
To create means to bring into existence. Creativity, then, is “the use of imagination or original ideas to create something” (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) that did not exist before. (Or failed to pre-exist.) Imagination necessarily precedes...
