My Daughter in Law Showed Up With Suitcases and Said They Were Moving Into My Chalet

that my existence at full scale was somehow excessive, that I required justification.

I have been thinking about that, in the weeks since they left.

The house is large for one person in the way that a life fully inhabited is large. There is room here for the books I have been meaning to read for years and am finally reading. There is room for the painting continue reading …