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The imagination is a wonderful thing, yes, yes. Especially when it makes the jump outside our brains and into the real world.

1. Yesterday, I spent time with a clever (and whiskey-loving) author from Toronto named Stephen Marche. Here’s a review I wrote of his new book, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea. Stephen has created a country (Sanjania) for the book, and along with the country, he’s developed a history, a culture, a people. In fact, he created so much, he’s now conjured a web site, which I recommend.

2. At work today, I was researching this house that a woman is having made out of the parts of a 747 plane. The architect is busy at work helping her realize her dream of using every scrap of that salvaged jet, and includes some (fanciful) ideas, like this meditation pavilion, with cockpit-window skylights.

3. Tonight, we bought a birthday present for a 10-year-old friend of my son’s, who’s having a birthday tomorrow. It’s (don’t tell him yet, it’s a surprise) a starter kit D&D game. Ah, D&D. Now there was fantasy made real. There, too, went many, many hours from my life, circa Grade 8. Whoosh!

Of course, there’s video.