CHAPTER 7
Create an Incubation Alliance
A successful imaginer has the imagination of a five-year-old with the wisdom of a grandparent.
—WALT DISNEY
My grandmother was an incubator. Near her backyard, she had a chicken house divided into a row of cubbies much like the ones you had in grade school. Each cubby had a floor of pine straw and a raw light bulb on top. It was where her chickens laid their eggs. I lived nearby, and when I visited my grandparents, my job was to empty the nest of eggs she would use for cooking. The hens did not seem to mind since they had plenty more on the way. However, when the goal was baby chickens instead of eggs, the light was turned on. And the hens were not at all amused at my territorial invasion.
My grandmother ...
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