Notes

These are not conclusions. They are the kind of sentences that arrive when you are standing in a doorway, neither fully in one room nor the other.

• A fresh wall can make furniture look older without insulting it.
• Sometimes what you cover is not damage but evidence of living.
• The first week after a change, your eyes keep checking for proof.
• Proof arrives quickly. Certainty arrives later, if it arrives at all.
• A search box can hold two unrelated needs in one line of text and still behave as if it understands you.
• What remains underneath is not always visible, but it is rarely absent.

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