On Saturday we moved to an apartment in Beacon, NY. It’s a 3 bedroom apartment in an old house with an upstairs and downstairs. My favorite place in the whole apartment is the top of the staircase where I can sit by the window and look out at the mountains. Typing that last sentence makes me dizzy with the velocity of change. This summer marked 19 years for me in New York City. It was pouring rain when I closed the door to our apartment for the last time, ran down the front stoop and paused for just a second to stare up at the brownstone on Hart Street where we had made a home for six years. I had only a second before running to hop in the driver’s side of the car that I would drive up behind the Uhaul. Taking it all in would’ve been overwhelming. I started the car, took off my mask, wiped the sweat from my face with the hem of my t-shirt. It was not the goodbye I had anticipated after nearly two decades somewhere; it was not the exit I could’ve predicted. But this is where we live now.
July 2020: Where We Live Now
July 2020: Where We Live Now
July 2020: Where We Live Now
On Saturday we moved to an apartment in Beacon, NY. It’s a 3 bedroom apartment in an old house with an upstairs and downstairs. My favorite place in the whole apartment is the top of the staircase where I can sit by the window and look out at the mountains. Typing that last sentence makes me dizzy with the velocity of change. This summer marked 19 years for me in New York City. It was pouring rain when I closed the door to our apartment for the last time, ran down the front stoop and paused for just a second to stare up at the brownstone on Hart Street where we had made a home for six years. I had only a second before running to hop in the driver’s side of the car that I would drive up behind the Uhaul. Taking it all in would’ve been overwhelming. I started the car, took off my mask, wiped the sweat from my face with the hem of my t-shirt. It was not the goodbye I had anticipated after nearly two decades somewhere; it was not the exit I could’ve predicted. But this is where we live now.