My dining room is adjoined to my living room. It is a part of the rectangle space that is used for sitting room and dining room. I wanted to buy a long piece of furniture to divide my sitting room from my dining. I have not gotten to it yet. Instead, the divider is a short line of cardboard boxes hold belongings which are in constant use for projects that occupy our time.
The dining room is where the staircase starts. It is a broad, winding staircase, all the way to the top. Like many staircases, this is also hollow. The womb nurtures the simple CCTV; the nervous system of the house. It captures the important spots where the pulsating action continues.
My fridge is in my dining room because my kitchen has insufficient space for it. My kitchen’s countertop, wall cabinets and pantry take up three sides of the walls of the kitchen. The fourth wall is a large window for ventilation.
The induction stove is at the countertop along the wall adjacent to the window. The window at the wall has only space for the double sink, and dish rack. The wall opposite the window can only be used partially because the door to the dining room needs space to open into the kitchen. Since this is a short wall space, it is used for the built in oven. Someone in my family loves baked, roasted and toasted foods. Before we bought this oven, she never ate oven cooked foods. When this oven was installed, it has been in use almost every alternate day or third day. The money was well spent.
The kitchen has a very small space in its heart; too small to place a table and chairs. Cooked food is brought out to the dining room or sitting room for consumption.
We hear the neighbors’ voices whenever they speak. We are semi-detached houses, separated by a structural wall. This could be the fatal flaw. Sound conduction through the frame spares no mercy.
No matter how ugly my family is, no matter how dirty the struggle to make a living, we have never felled our fellow humans. I can’t say the same for the voices who speak concurrently next door.
What does one do for lack of dusters or absorbers for fluid?
Are these red flowers or flowers of other colors but speckled with the red matter?
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