My best friend and her family have been visiting the States from Denmark. Her youngest boy is über creative. He reminds me of my own son. Intelligent. Precocious. A charmer. Needless to say, I fell madly in love with this child!
The stories I had told about his artistic undertakings left me speechless. Then, right before my eyes, he did the unthinkable-he made something! Now this boy did not just make a simple drawing or a little trinket, he made a full-fledged creation! From nothing!!!
It all started with an empty toilet paper roll, then some paper, then it was, ”Heather, do you have any glue?”
“No, glue. I have tape.”
“Okay!”
Off he went. He made a WATER TIGHT BOAT. I was gobsmacked. The 9-year-old was a design genius. The boat sat on my counter for a week and haunted me. It would tell me things about art. It would mock me and laugh at me. It would taunt me with its simplicity.
The family is camping now but the boat is still emblazoned in my brain. The art of this energetic boy still teasing me to do something with my own talent saying, Can you do that!?!
