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$25 Fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity
3 Great Women Authors Deliver a Spoken Word Performance
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“If religion continues to church-it-up in pretense and inside baseball, we become like Gilbert and Sullivan operettas: great good stuff, beloved by an ever-shrinking, self-congratulating group of lovely people.”
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Duo’s writing for the Common Edge design blog
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Duo's writing on Arch Daily
Architecture Without Architects: The Cut-Paste Typology Taking Over America
10 Years Post-Recession, a Resilient Generation Makes Practice Work for Them
The Intimate Work of Designing A Home
Architecture and Criticism: By the People, for the People?
Good Architecture Is Not Produced by Rejecting History—Or by Replicating it, Either
Design Your Dream Home
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Architects Doug Patt and Stephen Chung share insider tips on how to design your dream home. Listen to Duo share his.
Coffee Hour Podcast
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Coffee Hour at the Commons
Where faith meets daily life in conversations, stories, and even sermons.
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Unorthodox Podcast: Birthright for Wasps?
Just the Two of Us 
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“They were marveling at their newly refreshed home over Thanksgiving. They are in the discovery mode we were in when we spent our first year in our new home. Seeing all your surprises, and chortling contentedly over them.”
days till spring
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“It’s RIGHT, RIGHT Cross 1-14, on set – ON SET”
BANG
I clap, with all the others, snap around and get to the line.
Where am l?
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Motivation and outcome dominate our lives.
Desire, hope, fear launch us. Results, products, even experiences become our memory. In between aspiration and realization is a place that is often ignored and forgotten.
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4.5 months ago I was just fine.
But then, at the Spring Solstice, a 61.5 year old blood tube decided it’s inadequate middle layer had performed as long as it could: it blew, the tube blew, part of my brain was flooded and I lost (only) balance.
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I believe that the prime difference between buildings and other things humans construct (bridges, sculptures, cars) is that a building’s prime directive is to protect its users from the weather. Thermal protection is pretty easy, as is making a wind break and providing shade: but shedding water can be dicey.
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The Virtue of Doing Hard Things
I am not big on watching.
Thus kneeling or not, the NFL is but a TV show to me, nice if I am too done to do other things, even enjoyable, as I toil on my exercise bike in the dark.
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40 of 40
Some things are once in a life.
The last few years I have opted to write 40 times during Lent, everyday, in silence, on the bike for 90 minutes – ending at Holy Week.
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WHAT IS GONE IS BACK AGAIN Bruce Barber and I went to high school together 45 years ago: Over the last decade, Bruce has included me in his creative machinations, both of us trying to find connection to the world at a time of change and opportunity: This is a third iteration of a very human effort: (click here to read more)
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The Strong Center
Give & Take Podcast
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