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Showing posts with label Tehran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tehran. Show all posts
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Friday, October 9, 2009
Flashback Friday
The memory that usually comes back sometime in October. We were evacuated from Iran in December 1979.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Secret Places Safe Places
Just reading Artysville's post about a little cupboard under the stairs that she was thinking of making into a reading nook for her 6 year old. While this is not her photo below, it makes me think of all those nooks and crannies in a house that serve as wonderful spaces for just getting away from it all.
Under the stairs by Susie.
When we lived in Tehran, in a very large apartment (3000+sq ft), my eldest son took the kitchen pantry for his bedroom. He was just able to squeeze in a single mattress and box springs under the shelves which went to the ceiling. The room had a window which looked to the vast area to the east of the city and just enough space for a small trunk which held a lamp. (The room also had electricity.)
He was 11y rs old and the room became a little sanctuary for him, and our two Siamese cats who luxuriated in the sunlight and the warmth of a small space. The faux stability of the country was falling apart but he had his space and I often envied him.
When I have this space cleared out more, and it is happening,
I want to get this bed Just For Me - to lay down amongst LOTS of cushions and down comforters, and read, and think and just be away from it all...with real life 5 or so feet below me.
Do you have a place to go to...to be alone...to clear your mind and let new ideas into existence? or is this still a dream for your future?
Under the stairs by Susie.When we lived in Tehran, in a very large apartment (3000+sq ft), my eldest son took the kitchen pantry for his bedroom. He was just able to squeeze in a single mattress and box springs under the shelves which went to the ceiling. The room had a window which looked to the vast area to the east of the city and just enough space for a small trunk which held a lamp. (The room also had electricity.)
He was 11y rs old and the room became a little sanctuary for him, and our two Siamese cats who luxuriated in the sunlight and the warmth of a small space. The faux stability of the country was falling apart but he had his space and I often envied him.
When I have this space cleared out more, and it is happening,
I want to get this bed Just For Me - to lay down amongst LOTS of cushions and down comforters, and read, and think and just be away from it all...with real life 5 or so feet below me.
Do you have a place to go to...to be alone...to clear your mind and let new ideas into existence? or is this still a dream for your future?
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