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My eight year old just entered her first imagination fair at her school. This is an event calling students to produce a project in one of several categories including space, structures, demonstrations, animals to name a few. My daughter entered building with a miniature model of the Duluth Lift Bridge made out of toothpicks and marshmallows. From the ideas inception through the building process and the transportation to the school, with the request for a ride home to prevent damage, it was a great pleasure to witness her use of various skills, determination, follow-through and pride in her finished work. This is a great stage in her life where the possibilities are truly endless and her imagination knows no bounds and her abilities are brought together to make something out of nothing. It is real magic…

Traditions can conjure feelings of connectedness, honor, a deep sense of value among other things. These abstract concepts were greatly appreciated by myself as I spent time with my kids printing pictures that I had carved on a linoleum block from drawings that they came up with specifically for the project. I have been printing my own Christmas cards for 10 years and this was the first with my children. They were fully engaged and thoroughly enjoying the whole printing process and the results of their work. It was a lot of work, being in three places at once, but the joy was quite satisfactory. I was full of it.

I finally got around to sorting through the pictures from Corwin’s Den outing on the 8th. I threw together a photoBlog of them and setup a Shutterfly Share Site for people to grab them.