For Christmas Lyra received a series of squishy tents and tubes that seem to be little more than giant nylon Slinkies. When strung together, these Slinkies take up more square footage than any house I've had the pleasure of living in.Thursday night Lyra brought one section - a single tube - with her from her father's house. The first two nights she didn't get much more creative than mashing it down, stepping inside and then letting it sproing upright: Lyra in a tube.
She found this hilarious.
Today, though, it occurred to her that she could stuff the tube with pillows. She tried to cram every pillow from the bed and every pillow from the couch into the thing - twelve pillows in all - which resulted in quite the overflowing pillow situation. But! It also meant that the tube now functions as a chair, from which My Little Ponies cartoons can be comfortably watched, and also as a pirate ship, which as we speak is sailing far, far away to Disneyland.
I miss my imagination being so sustaining.
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