Stories, Blinds, and Going Home
Posted on December 31, 2009 - Filed Under Home & Garden
It’s probably very important that I mention that I love to travel. Other people don’t like the feeling of being out of their element, in another place or another culture, but I do. I love the sense of not being able to quite understand what’s going on around me. It could very well be that, since I usually don’t understand what’s going on, wherever I am, that travel just gives me an excuse for being lost, but there’s probably something deeper than that. I like the feeling of disorientation, because it reminds me that I’m in between places, and I like to be in between. I like the liminal space between waking and dreaming, and I like the same space when it’s in physical space.
So when I woke up in my parent’s house, I was delighted, because I wasn’t sure where I was. They hadn’t repainted, and some of the same old furniture from my childhood was still there, but they had Next Day Blinds installed for the windows, and the change was really stunning. I was visiting them, after living overseas for the past three years, and not being very attentive to being in touch, so I was looking forward to a visit to my childhood. At the same time, I was a little nervous, especially because I was more than slightly afraid that things would be exactly the same.
With the Next Day Blinds however, I realized that things were not the same at all. I liked the familiar things, like my dad’s old pipe stand, and my mom’s books, but I also loved the way the morning light came in through the blinds, and made new shadows in the room that I knew so intimately before. It was a profound difference, that made the more subtle differences noticeable to me. While I was visiting with my mom, waiting for my dad to wake up, I started to notice that she had changed in the past few years as well. She seemed more comfortable, more at ease, and even though she listened to my new stories with the same expressions I remembered from before, she had sparks in her eyes that told me she had some stories to tell, too, if I was awake enough to listen.
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