the faces of objects - by Spencer Chang
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the mundane treasures that bear witness to our lives
this was mostly written in August when I moved out of my old place in San Francisco. I hope everyone has a restful Thanksgiving weekend! Geo Eye (Victoria Peak) by Takahiro IWASAKI I’m sitting on a couch in the shell of a home. We’re moving. Or rather, we have been moving. At some point in the past month we stopped living here and began moving. It didn’t happen all at once in some grand climax where the house is emptied in a chaotic afternoon, belongings ejected onto the street like overflowing garbage. Nor did it happen seamlessly, where everything teleports into a picture-perfect…
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