A Creative Spark

Elias built a house on Minecraft this past week and his excitement about it was uncharacteristically intense.  When he brought me into his room and showed it to me, I was floored.  We've been doing Minecraft off and on since he was six years old and he has consistently made houses of a type that are pretty basic and with only minor variations.  This was something altogether different.

I thoroughly interrogated him as to whether or not he'd seen a friend do this or if he'd seen a video about how to build it.  He assured me that he had come up with the idea all on his own because he was "bored" of how he had been doing it before.  And, as if to assure me it wasn't a one-off, I watched him work on another one that was even more complex and beautiful.

I wish it could be seen from all angles, to include the interior, because there are skylights and a swimming pool integrated into the rear of the house.  It's hard to explain what something like this means to me.  The creative spark and what comes from it gives me an inordinate amount of joy and seeing it manifest in my ten year old son makes it that much more special.


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