We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.”
― Lynda Barry
What fantasy helps you to get by in the real world?
Shells from a beach visit, an acorn or a stone from a forest hike, a hat with mouse ears from Disneyland, we gather mementos to remind us of where we have been, to hold the past in both memory and imagination.
What memento do you cherish?
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett
When have the possibilities that you have imagined upset others?
Lacking x-ray vision, mostly we don’t see beneath the surface to the armature inside, the bones of who we are. It takes imagination to get to what is under someone’s words—their needs and fears and dreams.
What helps you to listen beneath the surface?
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
Who or what have you unwisely pretended to be?
