Excerpts from Pocket Observatory
voicemails from meg conley
I left Desirrae a message
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I left Desirrae a message

about moving out of the houses we make homes

Desirrae left me a voicemail about having to leave a house she and her husband made a home. A home that was a kind of witness to their growth as individuals and as a couple. It’s a heartache!

Moving is something we all have to do at one point or another. Often over and over again. But it still just feels monumental. Because…I think…it is.

In these voicemails, Desirrae and I consider the reasons moving our stuff from one space to another often hurts. How do we honor the places that we don’t get to keep?

And I wonder how much did the Disney Channel influence my ideas about what a home should be? (A lot!) (This obviously needs to be a voicemail on its own sometime soon. THE HOLD THOSE DISNEY HOUSES HAD ON ME!)

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Excerpts from Pocket Observatory
voicemails from meg conley
You're too busy for another podcast. Me too. So this is just a voicemail, the kind we used to leave one another before texting and social media.
Once or twice a week, I leave you a message about politics, the economy, culture and home. I guess these voicemails are companions to my newsletter, homeculture. But like any message worth leaving, they stand just fine on their own too.
Just imagine I'm calling you from a Vtech Jelly Bean cordless phone, in translucent purple. I'll imagine you're listening to my message on your Vtech Jelly Bean cordless phone in translucent red. Talk soon.
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