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Designs for What You Can Imagine
North Miami Beach, Florida July 27, 2000 Aaron H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on issues, ideas and reflections on the times. Published now and
then. Opinions pro or con are welcome.
DESIGNS FOR WHAT YOU CAN IMAGINE
Persons without an imagination must have a limited kind of life. If you can
imagine a thing you can create all kinds of designs and bring them to life.
This is true for most situations where "things" are involved but humans are
less malleable. Imagining how a thing will be used under all kinds of
situations is devilishly difficult. Real things and even unreal things can
be imagined. It is somewhat like dreams often so real that you cannot
distinguish them from the wakeful world and where do those scripts come
from?
A case in point is in building a piece of furniture. Carol suggested that
I needed a new desk for my computer and other electronic toys in the extra
bedroom in our newly reconstructed apartment. This room could serve as
another bedroom if we incorporated into the furniture a "Murphy Bed" which
could be opened and used when guests arrived. So, a design caught our eyes
that did this very thing.
So, we drove up to Hollywood this afternoon to see what a computer program
came up with from the joint imaginings of a designer and the two of us a few
days ago. Our contractor joined us there. At this point I have not been
able to think too clearly of my future needs after having jettisoned so many
of my possessions up North. The shelves and drawers I own right now are
nothing compared to what I had before and I would rather not acquire
"things" to keep in or on the new ones we imagined. Our joint imaginings
came with some shifty problems and nifty solutions.
I have sort of decided that my Ham Radio will go. I didn't pass the
upgrade exam and when you think of what the new cell phones will be able to
do I will be wireless anyway. I won't need a desk for that equipment. And
I may not want to do wood projects other than whittling that needs only a
few carving knives. Of course I am imagining a whole lot of empty spaces
now created in the new home we are building.
One thing we will both do. That is to enjoy music that we create, Carol on
the piano we are bringing down and me on various harmonicas, kazoos and
ocarinas. Carol's Evaluation: 9 out of 10
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