How Serendipitous!

This one's for you girlfriend...

For the past couple weeks I have been trying to get my work space to feel more inspiring. I have not been feeling it and have been struggling to create it. One of the things that enhances my creativity is a clean and organized work space, along with the visible tangibles that inspire me. This is a challenge with my lovely old antique desk, which I love yet hate for its lack of space. I am a visual person. I need to see the things that inspire me and at the moment the set up I’ve got is just not working for me. Yes, I look to my right and out the window see the mountains – a definite inspiration. I look directly above my computer and read a favourite quote: “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” (So appropriate, isn't it?) However, the rest of my inspirational objects sit either low to my left or behind me on my bookcase and are not easily seen. I have considered moving my bookcase from where it now sits in my living room to beside my desk…full of things that inspire me: my globe, some of my favourite books, pictures of my niece and nephew, other inspirational quotes. But then a blank space will be left and I’m not sure how I would like that in my living room. So, after much playing around with my work space, I am still left unsatisfied. Until today…

I received a call from my very dear friend Michelle. A little background first. Michelle has a large map of the world that covers an entire wall in her apartment. I love this map. Every time I am in her apartment I can’t help but admire it, get close to it, touch it, dream of all the places I’d like to go. Yes, I love this map. Michelle also has the most comfortable leather chair and sofa. I mean, you sink into this wonderfully cozy chair and never want to get up. This is the seat I always try to get when I am at her home. So when she called today to tell me she had moved into a smaller space, one that would not be able to house either her grand map of the world nor her big leather chair and that she felt instead of putting said objects in storage, I should look after them for her, I couldn’t believe it! Firstly, she knows me so well and knows I am the person to care for these items until she can one day fit them back into her own space. Secondly, receiving these two items completely solves my problem of making my work space the inspirational area I want it to be. My bookcase can be moved to live beside my desk. The map of the world will cover the appropriate amount of wall space and the chair will take the place of the bookcase. How perfectly it all works out. Her possessions will be well looked after. It probably saves her storage fees and I get to savour, for however little or long a time, two truly beautiful and inspirational objects.

So, it is serendipitous that I need something to fill the space of my bookcase, while she needs a good place to store her stuff. How wonderfully it all works out. Only my friend Michelle would think of me when thinking about what to do with her stuff. Only she would think to offer these things to me (albeit on loan), knowing how much I love and appreciate them. I shall cherish and keep them in good shape for as long as they live with me.

Thank you so much girlfriend! You made my day today!