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Empty bedrooms are would-be sacred spaces, in my mind.
I recall move-in days to a new apartment or to a new home -- that anxious/excited, "what's-next?" feeling. The empty bedroom always seemed the most needy space to me, needing and ready to take on a new life.
I think of move-out days, or of selling my parents' house after they had both passed, or of my own kids' empty bedrooms after they had moved away, or of our own bedroom, after my wife had passed and I sold the house... the last walk-through of the emptiest room in the whole house, the empty bedroom.
2222 McKinley is a place of hopefulness and wonderful things to come. The bedroom faces east. A pleasant morning sun is streaming in. As empty as the space is right now, someone new will love it.