It’s been said before, and it’s one of the things people notice the most about him – Lex has a vivid imagination.
What most people do not have the opportunity to see is that it is also non-stop. From the time he awakes, to the time he hits the pillow there is an onslaught of scenarios, actions, events, stories that occur, one after the other with nary a break in between.
A simple car ride anywhere is never just a car ride. The moment we are seated, “What are you driving? I’m driving an off-road armored Special Forces truck with a turret on the top. Let’s pretend you are driving a school bus and you don’t notice there’s a Special Forces truck behind you so you just drive along until all of a sudden you hear a siren, but you don’t know where it’s coming from and then you look in your mirror and you see it and you say, ‘Oh my god! It’s a Special Forces truck!’ and you wonder what’s going on, and when I finally honk the horn you pull over and all the kids in the bus start yelling out the window and pointing…”
All without a single breath.
A simple game of catch after dinner is stalled until he gets into his full Red Sox uniform. Then, just as the first pitch is about to be thrown, “Hey, let’s pretend that you and I are Red Sox, and he’s Baltimore Orioles and after a few pitches when I miss the manager comes out and takes the ball from him to change pitchers just like the real games, and then we’ll switch and I’ll be the pitcher and you’ll hit and he’ll be the outfield and then we’ll do it again.”
Doesn’t matter what it is – dinner, sitting on the couch, having a snack. Even now as I type this:“Hey dad, let’s pretend you give me this sugar pouch, and I say, ‘This is good, what’s it made out of?’ and you say, ‘gunpowder’, and I say, ‘What?!’”, it just doesn’t matter. Anytime, anywhere, his imagination has a story to go with it.
It’s never just whatever it is. Why should it be? There’s so much more out there!

