Notes from Elsewhere...
How places, spaces, and seasons shape the energy we live inside every day...
There’s something remarkable in the art of noticing… the little things that build a full life.
Places hold energy. They hold memory, rhythm, a quiet blueprint for how life moves through them. And whether we realize it or not, we are constantly responding to that energy.
A kitchen at dawn.
A quiet museum bench.
A narrow street in a city we’ve never visited before.
A tree we pass every day but suddenly notice in a new way.
The spaces around us shape how we move through life, how we feel, what we notice, and even who we become. At the same time, we shape those spaces right back with our attention, our presence, our design choices, and the way we choose to live within them.
Energy begets Energy.
Notes From Elsewhere is a record of those interactions.
These essays and observations come from moments when a place reveals something: a shift in light across a room, the faint pull of a historic building, the calm of a landscape, the charged energy of a city block, or the small but meaningful details inside a home.
Sometimes the “elsewhere” is literal… a place I’m traveling through.
Sometimes it’s a corner of my own home seen differently.
Sometimes it’s simply the space of the mind, where memory and imagination turn familiar environments into something new.
What fascinates me most is how often this happens. Not once in a while, but constantly. If we are paying attention, we encounter countless small spatial experiences every day: a doorway, a garden path, a gallery wall, a patch of sunlight on the floor.
Each one is a quiet invitation to notice.
I have always been someone who watches how energy moves through our spaces. Through homes, landscapes, cities, seasons. And I design spaces and life in response to that movement. It’s how I approach both my work and my everyday life.
Over time I’ve come to believe that intentional design isn’t only about aesthetics. It’s about relationship. Relationship to place, to atmosphere, and ultimately to ourselves.
Notes From Elsewhere explores that relationship.
You’ll find my notes here as essays, travel reflections, fragments of observation, or small field notes from a moment that felt worth capturing.
They are simply attempts to describe what a place felt like, what it revealed, and how that experience echoes back into the way we shape our own environments.
Because every time we encounter a new place, we encounter a new version of ourselves.
And if we learn to notice those moments, we begin to design our lives with far greater intention.
If you’re curious about the energy of places… how a room can shift your mood, how a landscape can change your perspective, how small details shape the feeling of everyday life I invite you to subscribe and follow along.
I’ll be sharing these notes as they appear, one place at a time.
xo
Abby
I write about how places, near and far shape us, and how intentional design helps us live in better relationship with the energy of our environments.