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<\/p>\nMy new office is uplifting.<\/p>\n
Today I was up lifting boxes of files. And down carrying empty boxes. I’ve claimed the loft in our rental house for\u00a0my office – and what an office it is.<\/p>\n
A skylight illuminates the room and frames blue sky with the highest tips of leafy branches.<\/p>\n
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To my right, a large window offers a treehouse view into the woods. Bright, airy, the space also has a warm solidity from the long wooden desk and wooden bookshelves.<\/p>\n
Architecture as inspiration.<\/p>\n
I like being up high.<\/p>\n
When I’m in the loft, it seems easier to put everything else aside and focus on what I am there to do – photos, writing, business, or just thinking.<\/p>\n
I can see down into the living room and the sunroom, so it’s easy to wave at Tom, or see if he’s napping, or call down to him with a question. But since I’m physically removed from him, I’m not caught up in his needs.<\/p>\n
I’m above it all.<\/p>\n
It’s been six weeks since the tree fell on our house<\/a> and 10 weeks since I last was settled in my own home office. In this time since vacation<\/a>, Tom’s stroke, and the house packout<\/a>, my office has been a moving improvisation.<\/p>\n I’ve written on my iPad while Tom was in therapy, I’ve worked on documents using Tom’s computer at the condo, I’ve borrowed Sara’s laptop when I had an urgent deadline.<\/p>\n Now I finally have a space.<\/p>\n It’s such a relief to know where my files and paperwork are, where my computer is, where my photos are, where my stapler and notebooks and pens are. A place for everything and everything in its place.<\/p>\n As I sat in my office chair looking out, I felt I could breathe better.<\/p>\n My mind calmed down and immediately I feel more creative. Came up with a new concept for a glass sculpture, jotted down new thoughts about where to take my writing.<\/p>\n This is what they mean by lofty ideas.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 2013. That’s when I set up my home office in a configuration where I thought it would be great to have a curtain between my art space and my office. It wasn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My new office is uplifting. Today I was up lifting boxes of files. And down carrying empty boxes. I’ve claimed the loft in our rental house for\u00a0my office – and what an office it is. A skylight illuminates the room and frames blue sky with the highest tips of leafy branches. To my right, a … read more Lofty ideas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[94,35,325,1220,1219,789,1013,138],"class_list":["post-9176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-94","tag-art","tag-creativity","tag-elevation","tag-office","tag-space","tag-view","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9186,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions\/9186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}