Some objects in a home are just objects. The remote control. The spare charger nobody claims. And then there’s the prayer mat, which gets unrolled five times a day, touched by your forehead, your palms and your knees, and still somehow gets less attention than the sofa cushions. It’s the most faithful thing you own, […]

Nobody moves the sofa. That’s not a character flaw, it’s just physics and reasonable priorities. The sofa is heavy, the room looks fine, and there are roughly two hundred things more urgent than investigating what’s happening in a strip of floor no human eye has seen since the delivery team left. So the space behind […]