In the long run, a single open window can become a way of life. The Bloomsbury circle around Woolf turned salons and shared houses into laboratories of thought, showing how spaces and conversations coevolve. Likewise, small daily drafts, repeated, alter the climate inside you: projects start sooner, attention sharpens, and courage becomes habitual. Eventually, the furniture settles into a new arrangement—not by force, but by the steady insistence of air, light, and the willingness to keep the latch unfastened. [...]