A personal reflection on the enduring comfort found in simple spaces, using the author's experiences with windowsills in New York City.
Even though we only got to New York a couple of times a year, depending on what family member was getting married or having a Bar Mitzvah, there was something so safe about that wide windowsill in that small kitchen. My grandmother, with her silky white hair pulled back in a bun, rocking me on her lap while she kissed me on my head and called me her Pat-a-la.
As a young woman, I took a try at replicating that experience when I moved to a small apartment with a wide windowsill in Greenwich Village. The window of the third-floor walk-up faced W. 10th Street and I could see the Empire State Building in the background. Before I had any furniture, I used the windowsill as a dining table. Initially, I sat on it with my plate in my lap. Then I graduated to a folding chair where I could actually sit and use the sill as a table as I ate with a view of New York’s grandest building. When Scarlet O’Hara, the white Siamese cat, with one blue and one brown eye, came into my life she would curl up at the edge of my “table” and keep me company in hopes of a scrap from my plate. Tonight, as I sit in my daughter’s apartment, where I am bunking until my house is safe to move back into after the recent storm, I am reminiscing about those days. The windowsill in my daughter’s apartment, although not as wide as my old one, offers a similar sense of peace and comfort. It’s a small space, but it feels big enough to hold all my memories
WINDOW NEW YORK CITY COMFORT MEMORY GRANDMOTHER CAT
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