Imagination Land

While I edited Episode 46 that afternoon at the Big House kitchen table, Puck amused himself with no trouble at all on the front porch. He watched patches of rain as it came and went, playing dramatic make-believe with himself and two remote controls for old toys that everyone else had forgotten about.

“Where’s my laser beam gun, Mom?” he asked before bursting back out front door to rejoin his action adventures.

It’s amazing the conversations he will create back and forth with himself out of thin air. I guess that’s just kids.

I also guess it was appropriate that we planned to take him that evening to the release of Pixar’s latest film – “Inside Out” – exploring the mind and all its various capacities.

After bowls of Mom-homemade potato soup and bread and butter at the Big House, Linnea-Irish, Puck, and I drove out to The Galaxy in Chesterfield for the release, trying to hold down a few seats for whoever planned to join the group. Francis decided to meander over later to help us, not willing to stand in a roped-off line for an extended period of time.

Funny how things turn out. We somehow ended up saving 17 seats. One kid, sixteen adults.

“People are starting to get mad,” Linnea-Irish said to me as we stretched ourselves out over almost an entire row.

But they trickled in one by one to reserve their own seats – Francis in his truck, Rose with Annamaria and Thunderbird, Magnus right behind them followed shortly later by his wife Cassidy and her brother, Oxbear with a bucket of popcorn and “caffeine free” root beer for Puck –

“OH BOY!”

– Izzy and a friend, and finally Joe, Jaya, and her sister. We smashed ourselves into 16 seats, just in time for the feature presentation.

Good film. One of my favorite Pixars, maybe even surpassing “The Incredibles” and “Brave”. Between updates buzzing on my phone from the blow-out Cards win in Philly. And of course, being sandwiched between the two huge laughers of the group – Puck and Magnus – added to the flavor of goofiness for the evening. I think Puck was inspired for many future imaginations. So was his mom.

Puck was tucked into bed about 9:30; fell asleep immediately.