The Magic Bathroom Window
Woman in the Middle | August 1, 2012There are quite a few things I like about my house. The floor plan, the view, the fact that I have a living room and a family room so the living room stays clean….But the thing I think I appreciate and enjoy the most is…..are you ready?…..the bathroom window!!!! I do like the window in the master bathroom for practical reasons. In our previous home you had to crawl into the tub or shower and reach up over your head to try to open the only window in the bathroom. The bathroom window I am referring to today is conveniently located on the wall opposite the toilet. Very easy to reach and open. If you open it and the bedroom window you get a lovely breeze that cools the bedroom off before bedtime.
But the real reason I love this window is because it is magic. Yep, you heard me. That window is a magic portal to a youthful memory. How could that be??? Well, we used to go to the beach for summer vacation when I was a child. The windows in the bathroom at the motel we used to stay at was always open because it was humid and you needed to keep that window open in a desperate bit to cut down on the dampness. When I went in that motel bathroom at night or in the early morning hours I could hear, though the open window, the distant roar of the ocean and the sounds of the neighborhood around us.
Fast forward more than thirty years to the first summer we lived in this house. As usual, I staggered into our bathroom, the one with the magic window, in the middle of some night, and in the night-time quiet I could hear noises through the magic window that opened up a portal in my mind to those distant summers. I heard a gentle distant roar (air conditioner, probably) a lone car driving by, a dog barking far away, and I was instantly transported back to the beach of my youth. A sound memory that had been locked away for years was opened up and it was so odd, and weird, and wonderful all at the same time.
Now that I have experienced my little open window many times in the quiet of the night it don’t amaze me quite at it used to. But I still enjoy that gentle pull back to those long ago summers when ever I happen to be in that bathroom on a summer night.
I can understand why you would call it your magic window. It makes perfect sense to me. And I love the picture. Thanks for sharing!!
Those are surfers? I thought they were birds floating on the water waiting for fish!
Funny how things do that. I found a book written in Botswana that immediately transported me back to the farm days in South Africa. I had to buy that book!
In from SITS – sorry … keep forgetting to add that.
Love it when that happens! And love the picture. Visiting from SITS, and following.
Thanks for joining me on this journey! I will be checking out your blog, too!