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Starting with the corners

Slowly but surely, this place is beginning to look like home.

Good thing, because the days are absolutely flying by,

the weeks passing me in a blur of time.

Neither the Tailor nor I could really take any time off from work for our move, so we can only settle in a little at a time. There are so many boxes to unpack, fixtures to mend, hidden spots to clean, surprises to deal with, infrastructure to set up—a million things to build and scrub and fix and dismantle and assemble and purchase and beautify and polish and rewire and dig up and plant and patch and strip and undo and restore and set up just so. Some parts of the house are perfect as they are; others need attention immediately; still others will just need to be lived with as-is for some years, until we can get around to tackling them. If I think about any of it too long, I go a little mad.

So for now, we’re focusing on the corners. There isn’t a single room that’s done yet, but little corners here and there are starting to shape up nicely.

These images, then, are little glimpses of what my days have been like lately, of the moments that have alternately focused and fragmented my attention.

Through it all, work goes on, as close to uninterrupted as I can make it,

while the hum of everyday life picks back up around me.

I’ve gotten in the habit lately of keeping my camera on a shelf behind my work table. It’s a good reminder that while forward momentum is nice—

—I need to remember to stop every now and again and take a good look at where I stand.