Juniper Friday! Shai-Juluniper

Juniper, a dog, rests on an enormous yellow beanbag in front of a blue wall.

Same photo, but reimagined as the cover of Dune (1965).

Much has been made of the AirBnB aesthetic as a slightly uncanny middle ground between the vacant anonymity of a hotel and the lived-in homeyness of someone’s actual home. For my part, I don’t find that aesthetic as worthy of derision as some others; I’m OK with someone trying to make a space seem nice without also feeling like I’m on a guided tour of the inside of their head. That said, I was very struck by the color scheme of the attached photo when I received it, and imagined that perhaps Juniper is dreaming of an ocean of sand in which she is an enormous beast and is worshipped as a demigod.