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Article: Feng Shui, in Its Proper Perspective
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 28, 2000
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For the 10 years I've lived in a downtown D.C. high-rise, our
apartment has stubbornly eluded the very precepts of feng shui.
I've grappled with its unwieldy rooms, pleaded with it,
reconfigured it, hung wind chimes and put up mirrors, lit candles and
incense. To no avail. Our living space remains as feng shui frazzled
as it was when I first walked into it.
When I was growing up, my grandmother in the Bronx taught me a
kind of Jewish version of feng shui--how rooms could glow with memory
and energy by the perfect placement of sofas, chairs, lamps, and her
cherished piano signed by opera singer Lily Pons.
My mother, too, was adept at arranging things in our house in
Massachusetts--china in ...