'Imagination: Stronger than Knowledge'

 

 

“Ibelieve that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potentthan history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope alwaystriumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And Ibelieve that love is stronger than death.” – Robert Fulghum

 

Fulghum’s book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten had just beenpublished when I met him in 1986 when he came to speak at a college convocation Ihelped organize.  His book hadn’t yetmade a splash on the national and international scene so many of the students inattendance had not heard of him. Within minutes they were mesmerized by his talk, just as millions ofbook buyers would be by a book that spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list.

 

Born in Waco, TX on this date in1937, Fulghum speaks and writes from his many life experiences which haveincluded work as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, IBM salesman, singing cowboy …  and, of course,being a child.

 

Subtitled “Uncommon Thoughts onCommon Things,” it became such a big hit because, like Fulghum himself, itshares wonderful everyday insights that each of us really ought to know but oftenjust have forgotten.   Over the years, Fulghum – who now splits histime between Moab, UT and the Greek island of Crete – has written a dozenbooks, several plays and a nationally syndicated newspaper column.

 

 

Also a minister, he saidhe started writing to share many of the thoughts and ideas he utilized in hispreaching.  “I think,” he said, “mywriting is part of my ministry.”

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