I'm working on a new painting. It's a little abstract...

It's fun. It's playful.

It's an adventure into the imagination.

With each shape is the hint or suggestion of a figure, a face, a story...

And so, I was thinking about the importance of imagination.

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's through the imagination that we create anything new. It's where ideas and dreams are born...

(excerpt from Part One in the Little Book of Big Dreams)

Life isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always fun, exciting or even comfortable...

So thank goodness for the imagination!

Using your imagination is like playing in a sandbox; you can make whatever you want…

Sand is malleable.

In your imagination you can be wherever you want to be and you can do whatever you want to do…

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Your imagination is real.

Whatever you imagine in your mind’s eye has the potential to become real in your life. Everything is imagined into existence.

Once you have a dream or vision of what you want to create, begin imagining the details.

You don’t have to figure it all out. You need only play with it in your imagination…