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...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 6, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
Total up the number of conferences you’ve attended, divide by the number of panelists you’ve listened to and what do you remember? Out of the swirl of comment, the ebb and flow of panelist debate, what sticks to the palette and nourishes the brain? Not much beyond the...
