the daily asterisk

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity—say, while waiting to be called to eat—becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others,…

Play so powerful it can absorb adults, becoming their way of life, may have a meaning that children’s play lacks. While there is an…

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have…

Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or…

In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can…

  Pretending doesn’t require expensive toys. Fred Rogers You Are Special

Our nation should do a great deal of soul-searching as a result of President Kennedy’s assassination. The shot that came from the fifth story…

That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter…

Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And…

Human beings have always joined in groups to imagine how best to live and help one another carry out the plan. The essential function…