Dating Tips and Relationship Advice
Can You Feng Shui Your Way To Love?Move your stuff, pocket money your love life? One writer sets out to redecorate. by Penelope Foliate As a not - forasmuch as - newly divorced woman with an eight - and - a - half - tour - senescent daughter, I have lately developed a habit of grilling married couples with the same intensity and awed fascination that I scheme Charles Darwin felt for his Galapagoan critters: What magical cows are these, and how did they come to be?I eventuate the while by interviewing two particularly interestingeven confoundingspecimens for a diary paper column I print about New Yorkers and their dwellings: Reiko Gomez, an interior designer who practices feng shui, and her husband, Peter Kaplan, a trader and financial advisor. Six elderliness into their marriage, they are plainly in consequence deliriously happy with one larger, despite the fact that they live and work in the same 800 - square - neb apartment and are dash off and cheese in their personalities. Hes flustered up till next Tuesday, term shes a serene ashram gray-haired who has built hospitals in India. In steep break in, I was the guy in the kid casing tropical in the hall, Peter tells me, and Reiko was the prom queen, all sparkely with her good works. Predictably, theyd detested one another at first sight, and then fallen madly in love.
While allowing for the mysterious calculus of love, I cant help but wonder about Reikos voodoo decorating and its role in their happy union. I know she completely redid her old apartment the week before she met Peterjettisoning every single piece of furniture, including the bed shed shared with an old boyfriend. Energy is held by big upholstered pieces, she explains. If youre sleeping on a mattress youve shared with an ex, theres both a symbolic and an energetic reason to get rid of it. Uh - oh. Having recently moved, old mattress and all, into an apartment in the East Village, Im curious about what sort of a prescription Reiko might give for my new habitat. Im struggling with notions of home and hearth, hoping to provide a sustaining version of both for my daughter and myself. Also, Ive just begun to noodle on the idea of dating.Perhaps, with Reikos assistance, I can make like a bower bird ( to continue the natural history metaphors ), and decorate my nest with something shiny to attract a mate. |
