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broodings from the burrow

April 8, 2010


my d.c.: through the window
posted by soe 1:42 am

I admit it: I totally peer into other people’s windows. I mean, I’m no peeping tom, but if your curtains are open, I’m going to glance in as I amble past your house. You see lots of cool things that way, from window decorations to collections to fun room set-ups.

This window is located in a row house up the street from the Burrow:

Artists Inn Staircase

That’s the Artists Inn Residence, whose website I suggest visiting. It’s the sort of place I’d love to stay if I were rich and needed to stay mere blocks away from where I lived.

If you were the sort of person who hurries past, never glancing inside, you would totally miss the gift the owners have given their guests (and passersby):

Riser Poetry

That’s from Homer’s Odyssey and is an invitation from Telemachus (Odysseus and Penelope’s son) to Athena, the goddess of wisdom:

“… But come now, stay with me, eager though you are for your journey,
so that you may first bathe and take your ease and, well rested
and happy in your heart, then go back to your ship with a present,
something prized, altogether fine, which will be your keepsake
from me, what loving guests and hosts bestow on each other.”

How about you? Anyone else an unabashed window peeker?

Category: arts,dc life. There is/are 3 Comments.



Ohh, I definitely look in windows – I figure if people didn’t want me to, they’d close the curtains.

The stairs are great!!

Comment by Jenn 04.08.10 @ 5:01 am

Absolutely! My favorite time is at dusk in the winter, preferably between Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year’s. (when we visit family in Boston, walking up and down Commonwealth is great for this) The lights are on inside, decorations may be up, and you can see really well from the outside. I like to make up stories about the lives of the family who lives there. (and my blinds are almost always closed! 😉

Comment by MJ 04.08.10 @ 8:15 am

@Jenn: It’s true!

@MJ: Oh, yes! I love seeing Christmas lights in people’s houses! And this will horrify my mother, but I don’t bother to close our curtains ever…

Comment by soe 04.08.10 @ 11:02 pm