{"id":2673,"date":"2017-05-01T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T21:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2017-07-24T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T21:22:57","slug":"ice-cream-pizza-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/ice-cream-pizza-incredible\/","title":{"rendered":"‘ICE-CREAM-PIZZA INCREDIBLE’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sessions at Butler Writers always start the same way. Questions questions questions. What\u2019s your favorite book? What do you want to be when you grow up? What form of potato do you feel like today?<\/em> You know, classics.<\/p>\n

Even though it\u2019s not original, my favorite favorite question is What\u2019s your favorite food?<\/em> I\u2019m always amazed by peoples\u2019 abilities to vividly and intensely describe what makes their bellies smile. Everyone has something. Personally, I could talk to you about the glorious makeup of chimichangas for days (my stomach literally just growled). But for J\u2014, my friend and mentee at Broad Ripple, his favorite was \u201cpizza\u2026 no wait! Ice-cream! Ugh.\u201d He couldn\u2019t decide. \u201cThey\u2019re both favorites.\u201d J\u2014 sat for a time attempting to access previous experiences with both delicacies and weigh the pros and cons of each.<\/p>\n

After a minute of intense contemplation, a brilliant idea came to me, and I decided to enter into J\u2014\u2018s mind space to help him out. Taking a deep breath, I started: \u201cOk. Think about this\u2026\u201d J\u2014 turned toward me with wide-eyes, hoping that I could help him sort through his conundrum. \u201cWhat if you made\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 ice-cream pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n

^ J\u2014\u2018s face.<\/p>\n

In that moment, an otherworldly peace consumed my body giving me confidence that if I died right there, my life would be complete.<\/p>\n

After our Eureka! moment, we attempted (with great success) to diagram the newly-ideated ice-cream pizza. That day, J\u2014 and I went home utterly satisfied. But J\u2014 wasn\u2019t done. Between that session and the next, he showed his mom what we had thought of, and\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said we can make ice cream pizza!\u201d J\u2014 told me when we met again.<\/p>\n

That is the story of how I realized the important of asking what if<\/em>. And that is why my main goal at Butler Writers is now to latch onto the ideas of my mentees and give them the freedom and encouragement to take what they have (abilities to dance, write, sing, aspirations, and favorite foods) and use them to create something incredible\u2026ice-cream-pizza-incredible.<\/p>\n

Hunter Hughes is a senior Marketing major.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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