escritoireazul

December Talking Meme Master List

Day three is from

marginalia, the thing you most want to do in your life that you think is impossible for whatever reason (financial, laws of physics, etc.).

This is an amazing question. I have no idea. I have too many ideas.

I've been thinking about this since it was suggested, and I've finally settled on an answer. I would love to have a simple, open to the sunlight home big enough for my people to all live together and still have our own spaces for introvert alone time. It would be on a beach with the Pacific stretched out warm and blue as far as the eye could see. There would be big glass windows that open, and a lanai encircling the entire house. Bonfire pits, great twisty roads for motorcycle riding, room for dogs and horses to run. It would be a writing retreat for the girl and me, who write together a lot. There would be a giant room for our writing and brainstorming, with white boards and lots of light. Heating in the floors. Leather furniture. A room set up for arting, lots of storage. A library of books. A library of DVDs. It wouldn't matter that not all of us have the same citizenship, we can live there without worrying about crap like that.

We'd support ourselves each doing the things we love, mostly writing and arting and cooking.

I want a safe space for us all. A place we can be queer and fat and crazy and biracial and introverted and angry and and and.

What's interesting to me is that there are already pieces of this in place. Yeah, there's not one big home by the sea where we all live in happiness, but other than that, we have holidays together, and arting days, and writing adventures. J's family fills his house and we find love and laughter and peace (and stress and fighting and drama, but that comes with family). I hang out at my dad's almost every evening I'm in town, and our dogs play together. Sister J and brother in law welcome us into their home and we marvel at their library of books and DVDs and video games.

Mostly, I just want the people I care about and trust in the same space, a geographic location I love.

I love living in cities, but I think I'm ready for isolation and ocean and peace.