Albert Einstein had quite a high regard for the importance of the Imagination in how we see the world around us.  Einstein was a German born American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics.  Below I have gathered a few of the many quotes credited to him regarding the imagination.  I will let his words speak for him.

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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

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For more quotes regarding Imagination, Dreams & Creativity visit the link or go to the DreamArc home page to begin exploring your own Imagination.

DreamArc is just beginning.  Where am I headed with it?  

Let me give you a glimpse of my plans through the end of this year.

§     Additional Printable Pages to download for personal use

§     Audio Recordings of children’s poems and stories

§     Prints, Cards, T-shirts & Infant Wear with DreamArc Images

§     Coloring Books with images generated by DreamArc

§     A CD compilation of the audio works recorded for the website

§     A Children’s Book of characters introduced on DreamArc

§     Lesson Plans for developing imagination and creativity 

§     Links to sites and products that encourage your imagination

Some of these, such as additional printable pages and products, will be implemented quickly.  Others, such as the children’s book and CD, I will develop over the next few months and should be available by the end of the year.  I will dedicate a post for each, giving you more details and keeping you informed of my progress.

Thank you for sharing the future of DreamArc with me.

Flutter-By Cottage

“This whimsical playhouse features a window wall where children can watch butterflies fluttering among the flowers.  In the evening the flower baskets can be replaced with lanterns to light the garden.”        - Holly Gomez, A Place Imagined

Holly Gomez, a fellow architect and friend, created a magical world at www.aplaceimagined.blogspot.com.  There she celebrates the need for adults and children to have a little nook of their own to give space for their imaginations to grow.

Her doodles grew from a thought to reality with the auction for Habitat for Humanity.  Habitat recruited architects to design and contractors to build playhouses to be auctioned to raise money to house families. 

Imagination used to build a play space AND a living space.  Nothing could be more delightful!  (Of course, being an architect and parent myself, may cause me to be a bit biased   )

julia ashley

www.DreamArc.com

This is one of My Little Fashion Fairy’s early depictions of the Color of her Imagination!

Go to www.DreamArc.com to the Contact Me page and send a picture of your imagination or one rendered by your handy dandy child artist.  They are much more fearless in such matters.  Please, put Imagination Art in the Subject, and I will create a Gallery of all the Imagination Art sent.

Are you trying to live your wildly creative, deeply analyzed, enriched life (or the one you strive to have) while juggling small monkey creatures who call you Mom or Dad?

Are you working a full time job, trying to work, eat, sleep and occasionally breathe while climbing over the pile of papers that keep coming home from school?

Are you envying your children who get to play with glue and scissors and colored paper and wish you could join them in their spontaneous dance instead of paying the bills?

If so, join us here!

We share advice on being the imaginative creative You while not embarrassing you children in front of their friends.  I KNOW!  It is impossible, but it sure is fun to try.  We share questions and tips from experience on how we are authentic US’s and how we can encourage them to be authentic THEM’s.