Every Great Idea I Have Is Awsome

I came across this on my friend Brande Jackson's Flickr site and thought it was just about the best thing I've seen in a long time. It's the first page of a journal by one of her 4th grade students named Chris. You can read more about Brande's afterschool art program here.

I am going to use this as my mantra from now on. So often I don't honor or give credence to the ideas that I have and, really, why not? If I don't back my great ideas and see them through to their appropriate ends, who will? I'd rather take a chance on an idea than have it poured down the drain into the crevices of my mind -- that place forlorn Great Ideas go to die.