Accept the impossible...

I've been freelancing for about a year now, and have finally disciplined myself to work from the office space I've set up rather than just plopping myself on the couch in the living room. It helps with work/life separation.

The "office space" is really a room with a couch, a couple lamps and a stack of books on the floor. I've placed one of our dining room chairs next to the window so that as I type on my laptop, I can occasionally glance out at the old majestic trees that line my street, or spy at the people walking by on the sidewalk below.

On the windowsill I have a card I bought for myself earlier this year, which for some reason I just adore. It's an image of a woman who looks very '40s, with pale skin, hair pulled up in curls, draped in a cerulean green robe, leaning over a clawfoot tub. Floating in the air above the tub is this quote, in purple text:

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary
is to accept the impossible and bear the intolerable...

-Kathleen Norris

I did a quick Google search on Ms. Norris (should I be embarrassed that I'd never heard of her?) and she sounds like a kindred spirit - from San Francisco, no less...