Bed time!  Brush your teeth, pick out a good book and hop into bed.  Time to turn the lights out on another school year.  Sweet dreams....

....of waves crashing on the beach and tall pines swaying in the wind.  The stars are out.  They never look this close or numerous in the city.  Can you believe it?!  There must be millions of them!

"At the moment of the Big Bang, the whole of the universe erupted from a microscopic nugget whose size makes a grain of sand look colossal."  How could this be possible?  That everything in the known universe came from a point smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.

This is the stuff of summer dreams.

The power of our imaginations to stretch beyond the concrete and obvious; to ask ourselves the deep questions of life.  Yes.  Pick up The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, from which the above quote was taken.  And ask your kids about the universe.  Ask them to dream aloud and to see the world in different ways.

Greene tells us that when he was 16, Albert Einstein asked, "what happens if we chase after a beam of light, at light speed?"  And that the result of Einstein's inquiry, "forever changed our conceptions of time and space."

It was Einstein who said, "imagination is more important than knowledge."  So what travels through space, time and imagination will your children take you on this summer?

Sweet dreams!