Sublime

On the table is a stack of paper, on top of which a thick and clumsy spiral has been drawn by a heavy hand.

I tell the kids: Stories are flashlights. You shine a light in one place—an attic floor, a canyon wall, or a memory—and then you describe it the best you can. Maybe you need to find a photo of it in a book, or maybe it is right there in your memory, on the screen behind your eyes.

I wrote, “You might be wondering if I’m stalking you. Well, the answer is yes. I’m obsessed with your work—obsessed, and I have a secret dream, about to be not so secret, that we can collaborate and that you’ll illustrate the cookbook, let’s call it better than a cookbook, that I’m starting to work on. I love your work, you are the Maira Kalman[ ]

1. 玩

A memory of the day the child had freedom to paint whatever they wanted and they chose to use that freedom to show their love for their parents.

Coelho

remember texture, detail, sense memory, and what you felt like when the story first took place.