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February 9, 2009 By 9 Comments

(To enter February’s Artuality on furniture, click here.)

Cue music: The Office.

In keeping with our furniture theme (and to show off my new office), I thought I’d share my working space.

I’ve filled it with things that inspire me. Let us begin our tour. I’ll skip the new bookshelves you saw last week.

Jazz and Chagall: two things that inspire me. The Chagall piece, The Village and I, makes me think of the hope of the new earth. Jazz, well that’s just free. (In the corner in blue, it says "Birdland," in homage, of course, to Charlie "Bird" Parker.)

My corkboard: a collection of character collages, "art" I’ve created (notice the quotations marks–I’m no visual artist, but these are my visual prayers in practicing creativity as a spiritual discipline), an odd assortment of notes (most of which I can decipher), photos that remind me of why I do what I do, and two sets of tickets–one to Sweeney Todd and one to Rent, my two favorite musicals. If you look to the right, you see my fairy crown: a gold crown of stars with colorful ribbon streaming. I don this when really stuck (and let me tell you, I’ll be donning this today!).

And finally . . .

Because we converted a spare bedroom into my office (and it needs to function as a spare bedroom on occasion), we kept the bed. Notice the crumpled blanket in the corner and rumpled duvet. I call it practicing the spiritual discipline of rest.



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What on earth was she thinking?

January 12, 2009 By 10 Comments

Do you ever have those mornings when you don’t want to get up? Your bed is warm and comfortable and comforting, and the world out there is cold and demanding and hectic. Having the arms of the world’s sexiest man wrapped around you doesn’t help with the whole getting up, of course.

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Chris is now working from home. Which means we could either share an office or move one of us.

Which means I’m now in an office with our spare bed (having a bed as part of your work space is definitely a perk). In the process of moving, I found all these little scraps of paper on which I’d written odd notes about writing, a book or story, blogging, groceries. One in particular says, "The why is easy enough to answer. The how takes more time. The what-on-earth-is-she-thinking, that’s a different beast altogether."

Huh?

I’m pretty sure I wrote it because I normally jot down who said it if it wasn’t me. But I don’t remember writing it. And, more importantly, I have no idea what it means. What on earth was I thinking?

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