More times than not during 'the new apartment journey' we have met road blocks, pitfalls, gross incompetence and outright idiocy. Several (most?) of the projects were hard. And they were hard in a way that meant we would do something, feel it complete, then be forced to do it again. This happened over and over; the floor, the kitchen, the walls, the shelves. All too many times we would buy something, bring it home and find a part missing, a leg broken, a color wrongly mixed. For those of you NOT living in Manhattan, you may appreciate the pain of running around to buy and return and explain and correct. It's maddening. Manhattan makes it infinitely worse. It's just hard to maneuver. This city, as they say, is not for amateurs. Hence, it has been easy to feel some karmic pressure, some wrong path-ness as few things have been so hard on us. Life is usually uncannily easy. Life easiness is a choice, in fact, but boy howdy, houses are a tough one. As Camus said, however, we must imagine Sysiphus happy...the cycle of hope and defeat is built into all journeys. It will likely be a while before we approach renovation again. But with that all said, here is where we are. Almost there
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More times than not during 'the new apartment journey' we have met road blocks, pitfalls, gross incompetence and outright idiocy. Several (most?) of the projects were hard. And they were hard in a way that meant we would do something, feel it complete, then be forced to do it again. This happened over and over; the floor, the kitchen, the walls, the shelves. All too many times we would buy something, bring it home and find a part missing, a leg broken, a color wrongly mixed. For those of you NOT living in Manhattan, you may appreciate the pain of running around to buy and return and explain and correct. It's maddening. Manhattan makes it infinitely worse. It's just hard to maneuver. This city, as they say, is not for amateurs. Hence, it has been easy to feel some karmic pressure, some wrong path-ness as few things have been so hard on us. Life is usually uncannily easy. Life easiness is a choice, in fact, but boy howdy, houses are a tough one. As Camus said, however, we must imagine Sysiphus happy...the cycle of hope and defeat is built into all journeys. It will likely be a while before we approach renovation again. But with that all said, here is where we are. Almost there
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