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Football At Last: A Preseason Preview
Suburbia at the Mid-Century: Church
On Being Fat (And Life’s Other Unavoidable Criteria)
Podcast: Special Episode: Holiday Survival Guide
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Everyone has objects. Every lives somewhere. Many own their biggest object -their home. But even within the biggest home there are beloved objects. The smallest room, rented, shared, squatted in has “stuff”. There are necessaries clothes, appliances, things to sleep or sit in – but there is “stuff” we love for what it, or they, mean to us.
Why do we love our things?
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It was the spring of 1992. I was having lunch with my mother and my brother in Westchester County. I have no idea why.
I had served as the Executor of my father’s will, managed the sale of his stamp and coin collection, helped my mother sell the family house, help her create a revived one. The were a lot of reasons, but my wife was home in Connecticut with our babies.
As usual there were gaps in the conversation, and at one point I piped up “Isn’t that Perot weird?”
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Life is not fair. Life is a miracle. But the miracle has a price tag. That cost is accepting the randomness of its inscrutable mysteries until science finds reasons for the arbitrary consequences of being alive. Some humans are happy binge watching “The Walking Dead”, others are left saddened by only getting balcony seats for Hamilton. (click here to read more)
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Its the Fourth of July and I am in the office. Not odd, as its my office, but yesterday was a classic road day, as yesterday meant people had the day away from their work, and thus they could work with their architect.
3 states, 300 miles, 6 visits: first design ideas offered up, then budget results discussed, then a job site visited, then another, then a design evolution face-to-face, then a potential client, then home.
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I visited Grace Church in New Canaan. It was with AIA Connecticut. It was a celebration of architecture. It was disturbing because it was perfectly us: the noble, the hypocritical, the beautiful, the failed. It tries as hard as any building I have ever seen to be Universal. To embrace Connection, Spirituality, Hope, Openness. It was based on 5 Principals. It was designed by Asian Artist-Architects, it was built by a world class builder who owns Katharine Hepburn’s home, and the local architect is a huge NYC firm trying its best to make the construction disappear to let these abstractions be overwhelming. (click here to read more)
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I visited Grace Church in New Canaan. It was with AIA Connecticut. It was a celebration of architecture. It was disturbing because it was perfectly us: the noble, the hypocritical, the beautiful, the failed. It tries as hard as any building I have ever seen to be Universal. To embrace Connection, Spirituality, Hope, Openness. It was based on 5 Principals. It was designed by Asian Artist-Architects, it was built by a world class builder who owns Katharine Hepburn’s home, and the local architect is a huge NYC firm trying its best to make the construction disappear to let these abstractions be overwhelming.
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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.
It seemed right and a good thing to do as the season was focused to a better place, and I went with it. This year there has been over 2,000 visits to these writings: small by InterWebNet standards, but big for this.
- 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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