Today’s Life-Line is:

Recently I overheard a man bemoan that when he asked his granddaughter if she wanted to go with him on a short outing she replied, “Let me check my schedule.” She was twelve and deadly serious. Trains need schedules as do courthouses, nurses’ stations, and golf courses. Pre-teens? I think not. Whether it is children or adults, human beings need time, unrestricted time, time with space in it. Imaginal time. Once when my oldest son was seven he was laying on his bunk bed. I was walking up the stairs. Before he could be disturbed he announced, “Please don’t talk to me. I’m having a really good daydream and I’m on Chapter 2.” I remember how that delighted me: the emphatic tone of an all-knowing child, the innate wisdom born of innocence, the decisiveness of his desire and his deliberate intention to make room for something that according to others was so shapeless and useless but to him was imperative.

~ Dan Miller, © 2010.