The Urban Sherpa - a blog by Christopher DeWan

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Furniture, pt. 2 rating=4

February 7, 2006
File under: Housekeeping

If, as I claimed earlier, the abandoning of furniture over the course of our lives is symbolic of all of the other things we leave behind, then the opposite is also true: the collecting of it acts as a kind of ballast, anchoring us to otherwise arbitrary places.

In other words, I might move again someday, except for this new bed, and this new chair, and this desk, and this TV, and this pot rack.

As if the path of settling into a place always goes straight through the shopping mall...

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