By Nick Hayden
July 8, 2016
We all know (I hope) how the first tinges of warm weather bring alive the senses. We want to go out of doors, to find something outside our winter-enclosed world, to explore and somehow, in some way, suck a bit of the marrow out of life. We long for adventure, even those of us who aren’t rock climbers and wilderness explorers. That’s one reason we spend hours staring at a page or a screen, to be taken somewhere bigger than where we are. We want magic in our lives.
But there is another sort of adventure, I think, that we often miss, the adventure of ordinary things. I remember watching The Secret World of Arrietty and being amazed at how much wonder came through the interaction of these little people with commonplace objects. As adults, we sometimes forget these little flashes of wonder. For kids, it’s the air they breathe. (more…)
