by Dan Hunter | Nov 1, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“Can you teach people to be creative?” is the wrong question. “Can you teach people to use their imagination more productively?” That’s a better question. But, if your goal is educate imaginative people to generate ideas that lead to creativity, then it’s still not...
by Dan Hunter | Oct 12, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
It was a milk curdling scene. Our 20-year old refrigerator quietly passed away one night. On the floor, a pool of melted water stood testimony to its incontinence. Its silence—testimony to its demise. The repairman revived it. Extreme times call for extreme...
by Dan Hunter | Sep 20, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
Eager grade school students will keep waving their hands in the air even after a question has been answered. So, when you call on one of the remaining hands, the student often says: “She took mine!” There may have only been one possible answer—as obvious...
by Dan Hunter | Sep 19, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“Halloa! Halloa! Mr. Phonograph are you there?” Chicago, May 1878 The call rang out in a Chicago Methodist Church as if they were contacting the dead in a séance, coaxing ghosts to speak. With all eyes fixed on it, the machine distinctly repeated the call....
by Dan Hunter | Sep 13, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“What can you do when you always walk in the same setting, if not dream? As a distraction, in my dreams I built a fairy palace.” — Ferdinand Cheval, the postman builder of the Palais Idéal Ferdinand Cheval quit school at age 12 to be a baker’s...