Hey, sparkle bots! How are you? How’s your week? How’s your sleep hygiene?? This week has been hard in a lot of ways! The news cycle has been especially hard as an assault survivor, I took my cats to the vet for well-cat visits and they were not well and my vet was low-key mean to me, and I took a Lyft three times this week because I was late! I also “lost” my keys on my mantle (obviously I found them, because they were on my mantle but still). Life has been hard and weird a little bit and I’ve felt all off balance a lot.
But! The temperatures are cooling down. I left home yesterday and it was 65º outside. There are these cool breezes accompanying me on my walks home from school every evening. The air smells fresher, and not like humidity and summertime trash anymore. Libra season just started. And these good things combined with my hectic week make me want to keep imagining good things, so let’s please do some collective imagining.
I love real estate. I am a millennial whose student loans just hit over $100K and therefore will probably never own a house, but I love thinking about it. I love domesticity and keeping house, I love thinking about (very classic) design elements, I love looking at backyards on Zillow and imagining taking my cats on leashed walks in them. If I could get any house I wanted right now, it would be in a small town in coastal Connecticut. I want 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, NO OPEN FLOOR PLAN (I wanna fight the people at Fixer Upper for taking out walls all the time), and a kitchen that is almost completely white. I want a house that’s small enough to feel cozy with me and my cats and the troop of foster kids I hope to have one day, but has enough space so that anyone who needs or wants to drop by has a place to stay. I want a porch swing, and a screened in porch looking into the backyard where I can sleep in the summer. I want no fences, and to grow fruit trees and vegetables along the sidewalk that I encourage my community to take as desired. Home to me is a place where I feel shielded from the world, but also a place of radical welcome.
So tell me, friends, what would your dream house look like. Part of this imagining activity is choosing a life where capitalism doesn’t prevent people from getting the houses they want and need, so let’s pretend cost doesn’t matter. Where is it? How many bedrooms? What kind of community are you building room for inside and outside of those walls? When you imagine yourself 40 years from now, settled and happy, where is it taking place? A farm in Indiana? A loft in Brooklyn? An idyllic cottage in Maine? Describe it / find it on Zillow / draw it for me. I want to know what makes you feel like home. I want to know where you see yourself feeling loved and like your best self. What does home look like to you? Tell me everything!!
As always, you can also choose to just tell me about your week, or a funny meme you saw, or how hard the news is (I will leave you pictures of sweet baby animals if you need them!). This space is for you, I can’t wait to share it with you!
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