A Glance Back/ offices old and new
For the past month, you’ve been listening to me yammer about our move. Our “loft apartment” is just across the street from our present home, but, when the move is such a short distance, you tend to accomplish it box by box instead of in one truckload. So expect us to continue this odyssey for the next few weeks at least. I thought you might like to see how my old and new offices looked this week.
Out of the old:
Into the new:
It’s difficult to say good-bye to our big log home, but we’re looking forward to less upkeep and more free time with a smaller place. And I’m looking forward to an office where I can close the door and have a little more private writing time! A balcony office is beautiful, but….
Many blessings to you all! I hope your week is full of organized shelves and time to do what you love to do!
Sue
Thank you so much, Ann. Like you, I am always transported when I’m writing, so the office space isn’t as important as quiet privacy. In this interval when I am between offices with “stuff” in each, my joyous escape is to imagine myself sitting in my new office writing up a storm!!
Tough to leave such a beautiful home and office, but I worked right in my kitchen while all my kids were growing up. Some of that time, I just plopped my typewriter on the kitchen table next to my youngest son in an infant seat – the kind that would be roundly condemned these days, but everybody used them back then. I’ve had my own office for about 20 years now and I like that it has windows out on my world, but truthfully, when I’m working on a story, the world around disappears and you fall into that fictional world. Wherever you work, Sue, you’ll come up with some great stories. Wishing you much success in the new place and joy and happiness too.
I’m like you, Lori. I need peace and quiet! Your elk horns would look very good in the log house, and I would love to have you as a neighbor!!
Oh my, I would find it very hard to leave all that lovely wood, but I do know what you mean. I work in the living room… and lets just say that I often have to get up very early on weekends if I want to get in any writing. I need quiet and stillness, and not having an office or a door to close…
But you do have some nice woodwork in your new office too, and having less nonwriting work to do is a good thing! Blessings as you settle into your new nest.
Part of me wishes I was moving into your old place. 🙂 The matching elk sheds we found a few weeks ago, while out hiking, would look GREAT on those walls.
I didn’t know you had lived in a log cabin, too, Joy. Yep, it’s hard to move, but log cabins need a lot of maintenance. This requires so much less, and yes it is a lot brighter. We did that to make everything seem more spacious!!
Sue;
LOVE IT!
Seems to be lighter too – or is that an optical illusion.
Congrats. Moving from a log cabin is hard to take when I’ve missed mine so badly I feel like I’d LOVE to go back to EDEN – not happenin’.
Praying you settle in nicely – writing happens as you hope it will and we’ll see each other again SOON!
Much love,