Closets are a wonder and a terror, both – for childhood
\nA place for them to hide, or monsters – or even both?
\nA place to explore clothes, identities, and social roles in innocent dress-ups
\nTo imagine who you might be, who your family are, and were
\nTo begin to learn how to create stories
\nTo begin a journey as a storyteller
\nTo create a slice of your own, very personal \u201cNarnia\u201d<\/p>\n
My closet was old already when I was young
\nOld already when my father was young
\nWarm brown wood with darkened brass hardware and a small inlay pattern
\nIt was everything the BBC children\u2019s tv said a magical closet should be <\/p>\n
When I moved away from home I was unable to take it with me
\nIn later years it was damaged beyond repair
\nThere was a particular grief in that
\nBut I remembered my childhood stories
\nOf salvaged wood, and magic, and how it was held in the wood.. not the closet itself
\nKnowing this
\nBelieving this
\nI saved the doors
\nThese days they live in a frame in my home
\nThese days they aren\u2019t technically a closet
\nBut if you know your lore, and respect it
\nAnd remember the land between worlds and recall the true speaking of the deep magics
\nThen they will always be a door to magics, because they remember that they once were part of the forest
\nAnd for me?
\nThe doors are to memory
\nDoors to that place of childlike wonder within
\nWith the doors I still have a way back, should I ever find myself lost
\n{Onward and upward!}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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