Take 'Woof' for example.
One of Enoch's latest creations - a lego dog no less.
As a dad with a long history of lego-addiction (mainly in the pre-adolescent part of my life - but with clear relapses in recent years) I am thrilled whenever I see something genuinely creative come out of this wonder of a boy.
Wonder - because for all the inputs we as parents put into Enoch there is a vast amount of who he is about whom we know only the very faintest glimmer, the occasional glimpses of who he really is - and who he is becoming.
Besides the actual making of this little toy (using even smaller pieces to make the whole) - Enoch takes his play into another realm with the role plays and acting out he does with the little menagerie he created this time. He is quite able to spend hours alone, letting the little men and their beasts (or vehicles) live out different adventures. That many of them have a certain amount of conflict involved does not surprise me much - as I still remember some of my own creations which often included the war-like.
But the thrill of peeking in a little bit into Enoch's imagination - to see some of what he dreams about and which rouses his inner fire - put in concrete (if miniature) forms - and then acted out - is a wonder.
As a songstrel-king wrote many years ago:
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?a]">
You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor. Psalm 8:3-5
And so before we go - another shot of 'Woof' - Enoch's lego-dog.
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