A move is how you take it. It could be a kind of San Juan bonfire if it wasn’t, because you don’t burn anything, just send it to another house or to the storage room. I guess I’m not sentimental: when I became independent from my parents, I fell asleep the first night I spent in my new house, period, without any jitters or butterflies in my stomach, and look how I like this apartment liked. Because I’m a fetishist. As I was selecting the important things I needed to do, yes or yes, and not the movers, I remembered an anecdote Carlos Primo tells in his column for this issue: the time Antonio Gala was forced to do it due to peritonitis When he was away from home for a few days, he asked a friend to prepare his toiletry bag with essentials for the trip to the hospital, and she put a pair of shoes of a different color in a briefcase, one of them a tuxedo, one silk shoe ” Shirt natural, two bathing suits and a tie”. On a hot weekend in June, if anyone came across a man armed with a strange samurai-headed lamp and a box full of very small cups, it was me.
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If you’re lucky, a love story will link you to your home. Nora Ephron illustrated this state of suspension of reason very well in a 1996 text she dedicated to The Apthorp, the building where she lived with her family in New York until the end of the old rent and the housing boom put the idyll on hold . The building was a place to fall in love with: it took up an entire city block and had multi-story Neo-Renaissance facades, not to mention the five bedrooms and large patio in the middle. When she was told the rent, which was obviously chilling, Ephron did the bookkeeping as requested: “I’ll write it off,” she told herself, later clarifying that she never used the verb “write off” unless, ” to try to show something.” What I can’t afford is that it’s not a bargain, it’s almost free.” But let’s not talk about money. this is love
What do you dedicate to a house you leave? The first house you bought, the house you spent 12 years in, the house you decorated thinking you were a little pharaoh. The place where all the people you love came through and where you were happy. For those of us who don’t have children, the home is our closest relative: the one that demands the most attention and brings us the most joy. Each room has sociological and even scientific papers; The history of the house is the history of our civilization. There are a thousand facts and a thousand stories: In his book At Home, Bill Bryson tells us that one of the 38 theories that explained why humans settled down was “a strong desire to brew and drink beer”. Instead I look for moving quotes and only find motivating fanfare. On a scale from awful to even worse are things like, “If we had to stay in one place forever, we’d have roots and not feet,” “Moving is an opportunity,” or something that strikes me as downright disrespectful: “Move!” it That’s fun!”.
Your house sums up a moment in your life, but until everything that’s happened to me over the last decade settles down, I think what I’ll remember most is this outsider of a world unfolding , while I pull the umpteenth shoe out of the umpteenth box. As I write this, informative warnings about the far-right in the institutions intersect with videos of LGTBI Pride in Paris or New York, and news of rising temperatures are coupled with urgent holiday wishes. Luckily, this moment is also represented by the summer edition of ICON, one of the few things that doesn’t get hidden under a ton of notifications on your screen. It’s full of musical promises and pop veterans, thoughtful athletes and youth who reject labels — and most importantly, reject the notion that they have to tolerate — and clothes and stories that even dive between boxes. Happy reading and have a great summer!
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