T-Minus 393 Days: My Florida Window

If you follow this blog, you have already heard about my Florida Window. My office has two windows that look out at the cloudy and dreary New York, and a third window (a 32" monitor) that plays either live webcams from Florida, or, video that I have recorded from past years looking out my office window or pool side when I was renting houses in Florida.

I like to imagine my office is right on the beach overlooking the water. I have people wave to the webcam and I wave back. Sometimes I'll call out to someone and I am shocked when they look up at me. It is this incredible fantasy that I have created that my office isn't in New York, it is actually in Florida. It isn't snowing outside, I am sitting beside the pool. It isn't gray and cloudy, it is palm trees and sunny.

It amazes me that in about a year, I won't have to look out a digital Florida window - I will have a real Florida window. I won't be seeing palm trees on a monitor, I will be seeing actual palm trees. I won't be looking out at the beach, I will be on the beach. If I want to see the beach, I don't have to look at a webcam - I just drive over to it.

That's mind blowing. For nearly a decade I have looked out the Florida window and convinced myself to be satisfied. But to actually stand in the places I am looking at? To feel the warmth that I am imagining? To hear the actual ocean instead of a recording of it? To feel the ocean breeze instead of the fan? The possibilities are exiting, energizing, and amazing.

For now, I am content with my Florida window. But I look forward to the day when I will have a window in Florida.