Einstein famously said that: “Imagination is more important
than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and
understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and
all there ever will be to know and understand.”
As a child I grew up on a farm and we were a poor family,
we also had alcoholism and abuse in our home. We used our
imagination daily and it became a necessity at times as powerful
as faith. Imagination was a means of escape in certain situations
also in problem solving.
When we did the chores outside my brother and I imagined
our buckets of water or feed for the animals, were buckets filled
with candy or money, many things that went along with the
game we were playing that day. It helped the work of doing
those chores every morning and night easier and go by quicker.
We despised when Saturday came around as this was cleaning
day, laundry, dusting, mopping, and when our mom did most
of her baking or when we were going to be butchering chickens.
My siblings and I would be shut up in our rooms to clean and
we were always imagining we were someone else or somewhere
else. There were times when mom would wonder what was
taking us so long as we would get caught up in the imaginary
world we had created, this got us into some trouble at times.
When things broke down on the farm, there was no running to
a store to purchase new items, it was looking around with what
we had for tools and items that could be salvaged and created
into what we could use. I remember the sheep kept jumping out
of a certain spot in their pen. My mom took wood pallets wired
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