Having never done any kind of renovation before, it turns it there’s something quite theatrical about the process. Namely that everything is either late or wrong, but the magic elasticity of opening night means it somehow comes off at the last second.
My version of that is -at least by this evening- one room in the whole house will be heated and furnished. My office. In time for today’s webinar on growing mushrooms at home, which you can join here.
Note: My continued state of icy disruption also means that this week’s show will be delayed by about twenty four hours. I can’t tell you how psychologically freeing it is to have moved from ‘podcast Thursdays’ to ‘weekly’. For premium members, it serves as adjacent content to this weekend’s kickoff webinar on the history of architecture and design which begins the Custodianship course. So that’s your reminder on that, too.
Now, back to unpacking my library again. Every time I do this, it reminds me of a famous postcolonial essay I read at university called, funnily enough, Unpacking My Library Again by Homi Bhabha. You can read it here. (Required free login.)