“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

I can smell the grass, feel the stones with bare feet though I sit here shod and clothed with all the people.  That's my power.
                       Gary Snyder

    This is about imagination.
    I read the above quote yesterday and love it. It reminded me of a comment in a book I'm currently reading by Peter Sagal, who is a runner as well as host of NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.  He recommends running without headphones or music.  How often do we ever have silence in our lives and make the time to get into our own heads to commune with the bats and sweep out the cobwebs? The sounds of our thoughts can be deafening. We need occasional silence to release that inner noise, and to encourage our imaginations.  The background slap, slap, slap, left, right, left, helps.

“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in! 
Come in!” 
― Shel Silverstein



“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain


     It's time to go commune with the bats.