Reading this Fast Company article reminded me of the Chinese fairy tale about a boy with a magic paint-brush that could bring his drawings to life. In life, the child's dreams are made to come true by an adult and in the fairy tale the roles are revered but dreams do come true there too. Not all dreams are worth bringing to life, some are not even worth sharing with others because they would be boring or weird.
Yet, one father decided to make a real object out of his six-year old's scribble, creating a permanence such a thing would not otherwise have. In the mountain of childhood artwork this one will stand out as one of kind, a whim that came true, the art of possible, the stroke of a magic paint-brush. Something, the kid may ponder every-time he walks past the dresser.
This is the more elegant, thoughtful and artistic version of the refrigerator magnet that most of us parents have mail-ordered to be created from our children's kindergarten piece de resistance.
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