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Imagination is a far different thing from how we thought to use it in childhood—or maybe not. We played, we tried to see how large we could see. But we did not have the raw material we needed, nor the realization of the power of conversation. In middle adulthood we had the raw material, but we too easily got distracted with the grey cloth over our heads and so we saw nothing of the sun or the rainbow, but only the grindstone and the road ahead. Now we can see imagination and put it to work, flying high, carrying the load.

:- Doug.

As children we heard rumors of imagination
But we could not have known it
Till after we had come through
The befuddling waters of middle adulthood
Emerging on the other side

:- Doug.

Two directions of imagination
One facing the unreal
Leading to demons and monsters in the night
One facing real
Leading to coloring seeing creating life

:- Doug.

Humans have moved from creation to life to conscious life. We are ready to take the next step and that is to wake our imagination. That is done both individually and together. The together is conversation. Conversation is how we evolve to our next stage, it is the next stage. It is imagination to a higher power.

:- Doug.