Kevin likes to tell this story to make a simple set of points. First, human beings need to imagine things. They need to tell stories. But, second, the things or stories themselves do not matter much and can never be final. Only the little red wagon—that is, the imagination—truly matters. That is because the imagination is grounded in reality itself. Actually, then, it is not that humans need to imagine. It is that the universe is constantly imagining itself, including in and as human beings.
