Rediscovering the joy of visiting other people’s homes.
“It’s called an Airplane Bungalow,” explained my sister Mary Alice, as she led me up the dark wood stairs
. She had been living in her new East Dallas home for at least a year but it was my first time visiting. On the second floor, there were two bedrooms surrounded by windows, calling to mind the cockpit of an airplane. As I set my bags on the floor of my niece’s teenage lair and took in the all-around views, I got the idea.
It was well past sunset when I arrived, the sky inky-purple, but the following day, the airplane design shined through, leaving the upper rooms drenched in sunlight, despite the black tapestry that my niece plastered over several of the windows . That morning, cicadas singing in the heat, I drifted from room to room. In the living room, I let my eyes run over the titles on the bookshelf—books that I’d seen in their previous home, but here, in a new context, they were fresh clues to my sister’s personality: Susan Sontag’s journals; a poetry book called
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