Hello friends,
It’s good to be back here. I don’t know how regularly I will be able to be positing, but I can tell you I’m so excited to be here again. As some of you may know, my lovely bride and I welcomed a little boy this year and he is growing like the proverbial weed already. We love him to death and couldn’t have been given a better blessing in this life than the one we have from him. I’m also nearing the end of my Nurse Practitioner degree which will be a boon to so many aspects of our lives, not the least of which is my sanity.
One thing that I have been thinking about lately is teddy bears. You know, the ratty little thing that is all chewed on, matted down, and so well-loved and is likely taking space up in a box or the back of a closet. Maybe it’s already being loved on by your own little treasure who has decided he doesn’t like the brand-new one from his god mother, he wants the one with the missing eye. It’s just such a lovely thought, right?
I remember seeing a drawing years ago of a little boy dressed up in play clothes and he’s pretending to fight a dragon and there’s a little teddy bear in armor standing right in front of him defending him. There’s another picture of a little boy asleep and a teddy bear with a wooden sword standing on the pillow fighting off a giant evil beast. It’s incredible what we see and do and what the human imagination is capable of conceiving. Isn’t it remarkable, and how lucky are we to be able to help foster that creativity and imagination.
I’ll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors of all time, and I think it’s essential that we pass this along to the next generation, as well as a good work ethic, and a thought to what truly matters in life. “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . . If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”