{"id":1507,"date":"2012-07-17T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:46:59","slug":"30-things-2-a-decent-piece-of-furniture-not-previously-owned-by-anyone-else-in-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"30 things #2) A Decent Piece of Furniture Not Previously Owned By Anyone Else In Your Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI live here now\u201d \u201cHere\u201d being in your own life<\/em><\/p>\n

This one is a bit tougher for me as in some ways normal milestones don\u2019t apply when you live your life in constant transit. I don\u2019t have a house, I don\u2019t have an apartment, and while I am a title-holder on a beautiful home in Victoria, I don\u2019t \u2018live\u2019 there…and all the furniture in my room there was picked out for me in my late teens and paid for my others than me. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I adore my space there, and it\u2019s very much mine, but it\u2019s grown over the years through other eyes and other minds than mine as far as the furniture and such goes.<\/p>\n

There are times when I walk into that space and I don\u2019t honestly know if I \u2018live\u2019 there per say.<\/p>\n

But my cabin on the ships…which build from the ground up every time I unpack…that feels like home. It\u2019s a home I take with me true, but I\u2019ve put a great deal of care and thought into that little compact travelling home. Whether it\u2019s the Tahitian sea-shell that rests on every dresser of every hotel I ever stay at, or the apple-scented diffuser, or the warm and fuzzy blanket with wolves on it, or the pictures I paste up on the walls \u2013 everything in that room is \u2018me\u2019.<\/p>\n

People come into my cabin and instantly relax, and in many cases say \u201cyour room is so…different from the others.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s true that I may not have furniture, I\u2019m not at the place in my life where I have somewhere to keep<\/em> furniture, but I do have a space that I have put effort into making my own, into making mine. I have things that are precious to me that have belong to no one but me.<\/p>\n

And yes, especially in a life like mine, it does make all the difference to be able to come \u2018home\u2019..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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