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— Luke, age 8, on his way to the school bus
— Luke, age 8, while studying his new haircut in a mirror
| Beth: | [age 3] "I am good. I am a good princess. My magic tells me so. My magic is inside me telling me to be good and nice, so I am. That's all. That's what I am." |
| Grandma: | "Hmm. I think it is God in you that is good, not magic." |
| Beth: | "God and magic are the same thing." |
| Luke: | [age 7] "You know when we're working together, I mean really working together like a family or a team on something? It makes me feel good. I get this big THUMP in my chest and a big smile on my face like a clown. It feels like we can do anything! We could fight off whole groups of bad guys! Take that! And that!" [makes fighting noises] |
| Luke: | [age 7] "Do you know anyone who does sci-fi?" |
| Me: | "Uh... what do you mean by 'does'? Reads it? Writes in? Makes movies?" |
| Luke: | "Makes movies. Or writes." |
| Me: | "I used to know a couple of people who wrote science fiction. I mean, anyone can write. I used to write sci-fi short stories, though it was mostly for myself. Why do you ask?" |
| Luke: | "I've got this idea for a story, and I want someone to write it down." |
| Me: | "I bet /you/ could write it down. What's your story?" |
| Luke: | "Well... I was looking at this plate, and I was thinking, what if it was a robot? There could be this bad guy, someone who just likes shooting plates and things and breaking them, so some good scientest guy creates robots that look like plates. Then he sneaks them into the bad guy's kitchen and hides the plates in with his regular plates. And then when the bad guy goes to shoot at his plates, the thing that he thinks is a plate would turn into its robot form" -- [makes mechanical/electronic 'transformation' noises] -- "and arms and legs and lasers would pop out of the plate. And then the robot would shoot the bad guy. Bam! He would be so surprised. It would be a spy plate robot." |
| Me: | "That sounds cool. You should write it down!" |
| Luke: | "Maybe after I'm done playing." |
| [Scene: | Beth, age 3, has brought me a large cardboard box] |
| Beth: | "Daddy, can you please cut out this piece cardboard for me?" |
| Me: | "I can, but what are you going to do with it?" |
| Beth: | "I'm going to make a sign." |
| Me: | "A sign? You mean, to hang on the wall?" |
| Beth: | "No, a sign to put it on my door." |
| Me: | "What is the sign going to say?" |
| Beth: | "It's going to say, TO EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD: BE GOOD!" |
