With his parents safely dead, it was safe to imagine that they were not, and so he imagined descending the stairs, strolling in on not just Pell and Nick but the folks — the daddy unwizened, the mammy unwigged — seated at the kitchen table, grinning and abashed after their long and flagrant absence.
I honestly believed that my gratitude would keep me safe, so imagine my surprise in late November ,2011, when someone broke into a place I was renting with Hugh and my sister Gretchen and stole my computer bag.
It's safe to imagine that scenario being acted out (with additional scenes) in the daydreaming mind of many a female (or male) fan of Mad Men and, looking at the guy, it's not hard to see why.
As we dialogue about possibility, knowing that it is safe to imagine different worlds, we clear the path for the long view.
I believe it is safe to imagine that when the Prodigal came looking for work the citizens of the country could quickly tell he was not in good condition and desperately needed employment and help.
Perhaps it was safer to imagine that a writer as overtly Jewish as Agnon, who wrote in Hebrew and wove strands of the Psalms and of rabbinic wisdom into his fiction, was at odds with modernism and was at odds with America too.
But what I found myself actually searching for was a sense of community like I had experienced: local markets, places where I could walk and bike, which felt safe, and, imagined trying to live quite a bit like I had lived in Europe and even how we had lived as children back in Texas.
Few donors, it is safe to say, imagine the many other ways corpses give their all for science: mangled in automobile crash tests, blown to bits by land mines or cut up with power saws to be shipped in pieces around the country or even abroad.
You can throw that stick far away from your safe beach and imagine that stress leaving you as it goes.
These are safe clothes you can imagine settling down with.
