Old couch

Fawn-colored micro suede. Three square seat cushions, each paired with a squishy square pillow for backs to rest upon. This old couch has splotches, drips, spots, streaks; each mark a darker shade of brown on the original lighter brown. It's like a dirt tie-die, as though the fabric was pulled into little rubber bands, dunked into earth paint and then untied leaving an unpattern of brown on brown on brown. The arm rests roll up away from the seats--soft, fat Twinkie-shaped pillows. This old couch is long enough for a sleeping adult to fit comfortably stretched-out and the original cushions have been replaced with good-quality foam. It's a good sleeping couch. A good eating couch. A good living couch.

**This post is inspired by Fun-A-Day, a project with the following goal:

Start the year off with a month of creativity!

Make some art every day of January. That’s pretty much the only rule, though most people pick one particular thing to do every day, like take a photo, or write their dreams down, or make a drawing or a painting or song or a meal in a certain way – really anything. The only constraint is doing it every day, it can take as little or much time as you want. Then in February, everyone shows all the stuff they made in January, and we compare notes and have a cocktail. It’s a really fun challenge. And if you are shy about your artistic abilities, DON'T BE. This is just about having fun and doing a thing.