(An old freestyle adventure from the sidewalks of Cambridge that was never posted, until now!)
While heading out to the store one night with a friend, I
spotted a tall narrow shelf lying in a pool of streetlight on the far sidewalk. Full stop! Immediate inspection
required! Groceries had to wait
while we brought this shelf into the apartment and laid in on the floor in the
living room. Moving furniture at night
always feels a leeeetle bit (scandalous, secretive, surreptitious, sketchy??), but also somehow more victorious.
I was initially excited at the prospect of using this shelf
for shoes, going so far as to put it in the closet. I measured the space, but
not my feet. Turns out, my shoes were too big to lay flat on the shelves, they
fall out! Boo. So the shelf had to come
out of the closet. Then it had to wait around a while, twiddling its thumbs,
while I considered how to use it. A
narrow shallow bookshelf? Display space for tchotchkes? I suspect in its former
life this shelf displayed CDs, or movies.
The tall shelf sat around our place, empty, for a while,
until one night we were visiting friends and I spied the SAME SHELF but in a
different finish. Quelle
coincidence! It was also a freestyle
find, perhaps no one in Cambridge needs to store CDs anymore. They had arranged their shelf to charming
effect with books, mementos, and a plant.
I asked if they would be interested in a second, free, one to use as
they saw fit. (Thinking to myself, Please, take it off my hands, we don’t actually have the space) After some
hemming and hawing, they agreed to accept the shelf when Friend offered to
deliver it to their front door. *Sigh of
relief* Adios to the tall shelf, may you
serve a purpose for someone else.
Happy freestyling.
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| Looking good! |
Happy freestyling.