I choose optimism loudly. Why? Because if you can't imagine a better future why would you bother taking the first step towards it.

I often liken it to pretend thinking. It's why I sit with my 20 month old grandson and drink cups of water from the river. I want him to be used to imagining how things could be.

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I love this story.

"We have become so addicted to extracting measurable learning from children that we’ll interrupt a four-year-old feeding a wooden block to a stuffed bear just to ask, “What color is the block?”

The bear doesn’t need the block to be blue. The bear is very sick, apparently, and this child is performing urgent symbolic medicine.

Let the doctor work!"

I got AI to illustrate it but I can't seem to upload it here.