I seem to wake up in empty houses relatively frequently these days.<\/p>\n
Yesterday and today, I’m at a conference in Providence, RI. Since the house we own here still hasn’t sold, I stayed there last night. We knew we were buying a new bed, so we left the old one at the house for exactly this circumstance. Aside from the bed … there’s not much else left there.<\/p>\n
It’s the same house, same rooms … and all that … but without my stuff it feels like a shell. A negative space that simply occupies volume. I would say that it feels sad … but it doesn’t. It’s more that it fails to feel full of life. It’s nothing … which … having expected “home,” makes me feel kind of sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I seem to wake up in empty houses relatively frequently these days.<\/p>\n
Yesterday and today, I’m at a conference in Providence, RI. Since the house we own here still hasn’t sold, I stayed there last night. We knew we were buying a new bed, so we left the old one at the house for exactly . . . → Read More: Empty houses<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}