‘Imaginary seed’

Dear Editor:

RE: Daydreamer, Aug. 24.

My initial reaction to Kelly Waterhouse’s column last week was clapping then grinning. I would like to reassure Kelly that children can indeed “entertain themselves with something as simple as white fluffy clouds...”

Coaching 55 players aged three to five in Alma provides an excellent opportunity for laying on our backs on the grass and looking in the sky for sailboats, white and blue cows, striped tigers and fire-breathing dragons drifting across the sky.

Next they climb the mountain that looks exactly like a parachute and, finally, let it roll over them like a Lake Huron wave.

My point is that an imaginary seed is easier to plant in young kids (and Kelly). It’s equally as fun as licking the cream from an Oreo cookie.

The hope is that technology doesn’t steal it from them tomorrow.

“False hope is still hope and isn’t that enough?” (The Theory of Crows by David Alexander Robertson).

Coach Jim (de Bock),
Alma