Like a Movie in my Head

     Sitting in my living room, I was flipping through the endless supply of choices on the T.V.  When my 6 year old daughter came running into the room with a book in her hand.  Alison kept waving the book around saying "it's like a movie in my head", "it's like a movie in my head".  She said it over and over , while she smiled and laughed.  I thought that she has brain damage or something..So, I was sitting there with the 'devil tool' in my hand(the remote).  I was stumped.  I did not understand what she was trying to tell me.

     I told her, "honey I don't understand what you are trying to say".  Alison shook the book and moved it close to me and said it again "It's like a movie in my head papi"....{daddy dog look}....Then I got it!. I had been reading to Alison lately and she obviously started to read on her own.  We sat there smiling at each other.  I remember thinking, what a beautiful child, all children, when you can be there when they discover something for the first time. Her discovery was my joy.  An innocent child's connection into the endless possibilities of imagination that reading can produce, and I was made part of that!