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My flight was cancelled yesterday and I am still in Florida. Erin, who I am staying with, is off to work and I am home alone.
I almost wrote a blog on “Stuff I like: Going through peoples stuff when they aren’t home.”
Its true. I apologize to all the people I ever babysat for. Yes, I went through your drawers. If you trust me with your children, you should trust me with reviewing your tax forms.
(Erin, if you are reading this, I just want you to know your Journal entry from March 27th, 2005 was simply moving.)
I opted to write about my love for built in bookshelves. Erin has one in her bedroom that faces you as you lay in bed. There is a small built in light featuring the art and nicknacks that set among the books.
When I get home to Portland tonight, my built in bookshelf will be the first to greet me after ten days on the road. As I hunted for apartments, this was the feature that sold me. I have books on it that have changed my thinking, books I have never read, and books to impress visitors. There are glass colored jars I found at thrift stores and yard sales in Idaho. There are vintage copies of Bambi and Treasure Island that I will one day read to my children, and there is a black box I put cards and letters in which I stop and re-read from time to time.
I am not sure why, but for me, built in bookshelves equal coziness. I dream of having a den that has big furry rugs and soft throws. There is a large desk with a gold and green reading lamp. The walls are painted a deep something and the couch has brass studs and wooden legs.
I look up from the couch, or lean back in my desk chair and I am surrounded by floor to ceiling books. I will never read all of the books. I just want to be surrounded by them, especially the old ones with the creeky binding and the smell of moth balls.
All of these books were written by humans. People who cared so much about a topic or idea that they pour it onto a page. Most of them are dead, but that is what they left behind, and I want to be surrounded by these people on the built in bookshelf.
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Becca thinks...
Hi Joy! I’m a friend of your sister-in-law, Sarah, and I found your blog through her. I’m kind of a big fan of blogs. 🙂 I just wanted to say “hi!” and that I love built-in’s also. 😉 Haha!
Happy Sunday.
Becca
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