Chapter Three-Moving
Chapter Three
MOVING
Monday, October 1, 2007
Today, after moving to a new address in Cohasset, I admiringly surveyed high ceilings as well as furnishings of a second-floor apartment in a Victorian style single-family home, where I will now be living. A loveseat and an opposing oversized chair, both covered with dual dark and light pink striped upholstery fabric, are situated in the living room. Polyurethane hardwood flooring is underneath the living room Oriental area rug, which exhibits a dark red flower pattern surrounded with a soft golden hue. A glass top coffee table is centered between the loveseat and oversized chair. Complementing the living room décor is a large attractive framed floral painting, set above the red brick fireplace. A three fold black fireplace screen is flush with the opening of the firebox. Hooks connected with the fireplace screen display fireplace tools. Opposing the oversized chair, the living room loveseat faces a large window overlooking a sizable back yard and nearby woods, which are a short distance from the town commons.
A tall reading lamp is situated beside the oversized living room chair, which is located near an equally tall wooden bookcase. A nearby glass door leads toward a tiny wooden enclosed deck with adjacent rust iron stairs and railings—painted black—that spiral down toward the backyard. An antique stationary desk and accompanying chair are set slightly beyond the right side of the glass door. The apartment front door, which was fashioned with four sections of paned glass inlaid in the upper half of the door, is beside the antique stationary desk and near a tall deep storage closet.
A fully equipped galley kitchen adjoins the living room. Painted white paned glass doors with knobs cover the interiors of storage cabinets which are above the kitchen counters. Slightly above floor-level cupboard space is on either side of the dishwasher, sink, and stove. Hardwood flooring in the living room extends into the kitchen. Two chairs face a round, solid oak small table, also called a Pembroke table, at which four people can sit and whose two folded leaves can be folded to accommodate only two people. The kitchen table nearly abuts the loveseat in the living room.
Walls of the apartment were painted off-white; ceilings and woodwork moldings were painted white. Carpeted, the master bedroom also contains ample closet and storage space. Moving one or both doors of one or both sets of louvered doors aside opens the closet area. The full-size master bed and an accompanying headboard slat are near a French provincial design night table, upon which a lamp rests, alone. An antique oak bureau and a neighboring upholstered, small, and armless high-back chair directly face the master bed and are properly set apart from it.
I packed moving boxes into the mini-SUV I own, before driving from the apartment in Weymouth to the Cohasset apartment. After arriving here, I cleaned woodwork, hardwood floors, and the bathroom in the new living space, before unpacking and settling clothes and sundries into appropriate places. Tonight, I used a hand-held push button igniter to ignite newspaper stashed between store-bought fireplace logs; the flamethrower was designed to be safe for home use. Store-bought logs can burn for nearly three hours.
Imagining the firelight while hearing the sizzle, snap, and crackle of burning logs delighted me this evening, as I remained in bed, awake and supine. Moving to a new home has enabled me to rediscover and embrace stability, uncertainty, and contentment. Amid imperfections of earthly living, peace abounds.