Boathouse
Salt air, open doors, a dog asleep in the sun
A weathered boathouse stands open to a blue harbour, its doors swung wide on a dock, a moored sloop and pine-covered headland beyond. Inside, lanterns, life jackets, coiled rope and a dry-docked skiff crowd the walls, while a tide table and chart lie open on the workbench beside a chipped enamel mug. It smells of sun-warmed cedar and seaweed, and there is nothing to do but check the weather and go out.
Boat, Coast, Day, Sun, Wind, Playful, Resting, Company, Daylight, Bright
In this room
- A journal: what you write stays in the room, and only the people you choose can read it.
- A sound of its own — rain, a fire, a radio station to leave playing.
- A clock that keeps your time.
- A window with the real weather where you are.
- A note for the day, where you will see it.
- Frames for your own photographs.
- An assistant that knows the room and what you keep in it.
- A shelf for your files.
- A lamp that turns the room from light to dark.
- The lamps give a soft glow.
- After dark the same room has a night of its own, with its own light.