A Safe Place

I wrote this for the 14th Week of the Trifecta Challenge. This is the first week I’ve done more than lurk over there. If you’d like to lurk, or better yet, participate, head over and check it out!

There is a corner of my house, where no one really goes. The corner of the couch that is in the north east corner of the downstairs room, which is, in it’s turn, in the north east corner of the house.

The room that holds a desk, a couch and a guest bed, at the moment. It’s a worn out couch and ugly as an 80-year old stripper, though still very comfortable. There’s barely a path through the room, to that corner of the couch in the north east corner of the north east room.

I vaguely recall that the north east corner (or the kimon corner) is bad luck in the Japanese culture. Something about demons and spirits. In our house though, that’s the corner that takes the brunt of the wind, and the north east corner room is the least insulated. So come cold weather, everyone abandons it for daily use.

It becomes a place of solitude. A place of reflection. A place to bring your emotions and thoughts back under control, when life has them all stirred up.  It becomes a place for weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, if that’s what you need. It becomes a place where you can curl up, exhausted and drained, and sleep until your troubles diminish in size.

It becomes a safe place for the broken and weary.

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  • Rachel

    Thats awesome. I love the idea of a safe corner. I live in the worlds smallest apartment. Well probably not the WORLDS smallest but lets just say me and the cat fill it up pretty well. Welcome to Trifecta! 

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Thank you for the welcome! This is the first place we’ve had that’s really big enough to have a spare corner.

  • http://thinspiralnotebook.wordpress.com/ Tara R.

    Everyone should have a safe corner, a place of peace and serenity.

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Indeed. My project over the next couple months is to build a cozy corner in the kids room, too. I mean, they have their beds, of course, but it’s just not quite the same, you know?

  • Mel at According To Mags

    This description makes me want to create a corner like this in my own house. Well done!

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Thank you! I can’t take credit for the corner though, it just kind of “occurred”

  • http://lucidlotuslife.com/ joules

    Thank all the things for places like that.

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Indeed. Indeed.

  • http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/ Trifectawritingchallenge

    Thanks so much for de-lurking and playing with us this week, Jen.  Welcome to Trifecta.  Your descriptions instantly brought to mind a spot in my grandmother’s house that was useful for just such a thing.  I like the idea of curling up, exhausted and drained, and sleeping it off.  Who doesn’t need a place like that?  Hope you’ll come back and play again soon.

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      I’m glad I decided to step out of my comfort zone and delurk. It felt good to stretch the rusty brain muscles.

  • http://purplemoose.kenaiwriter.net/ barbara

    welcome to Trifecta! I love the idea of a space just for getting away.

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Thank you:)

  • Booguloo

    Nicely done.

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Thank you:)

  • Dana

    Well done! I especially love your description of the couch! ;-)

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Thank you. It is truly an ugly, worn out looking thing, but oh, so easily the most comfortable piece of furniture we own!

  • Anonymous

    I loved “ugly as an 80 year old stripper”. And if you need to be warm, you can always just bring along a blanket, knowing that all the other people in the house will be too cold to come pester you.

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Shh…don’t tell, but there is a blanket stashed behind the couch, where no one can find it and make off with it!

  • http://mommamiameaculpa.com meleahrebeccah

    fabulous job! Loved the description of the sofa. 

    • http://thepsychobabble.net thepsychobabble

      Thank you:)