Posts from the ‘Not As Fat’ Category

The Inane War Brewing In Architecture
A Great Good Thing:
Turner Brooks and I are interviewed about 50 minutes into this video
“courtesy of Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart“
Coming Soon, See The Trailer Here
Christopher Alexander and the Inadequacy of Genius in the Architecture of the Coming Age
Duo’s first piece for Common Edge: Architecture Has Become a Lifestyle Choice
Read Duos Articles for CT Insider Here
How COVID-19 ended the 20th century architecture
Time travel at home in the winter of COVID-19
Aesthetic concepts and their impact on charity homes in New Orleans and New Haven
The blight fight in Connecticut’s neighborhoods
Living in history and the old house appeal
“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.”
Architects Doug Patt and Stephen Chung share insider tips on how to design your dream home. Listen to Duo share his.
Unorthodox Podcast: Birthright for Wasps?
Just the Two of Us
40 of 40
Anecdotes are history. Sort of. In theory my grandfather played professional soccer in Brooklyn in 1903. No record, but there weren’t many of much, there, then.
Life is the same, life is different. There are tragedies, pains and joys, pretty much as there have always been. But the last calendar year started with a break in the world’s normal living that is not over. But there is now a horizon. Over the last 13 months I wrote 89 thoughts triggered, based, complemented and danced with Emily Dickinson. Some are good. All are short.
Maybe you have the time, for a while, to read…
Between Ash & Maundy I write in silence.
It happens to be Lent. I happen to be at Level 23. I most always do this every day anyway, but 90 minutes, every day, is a lot.
We can only be in one of two places: “With” or “Without.”
The expectation is that we are better “With”: love, warmth, food, family, thought. And while alive we are flooded with all our “With’s”.
But all of us end “Without”.
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.
Sometimes connections happen. I see a book, I use it in a talk (or six). The author and I meet. Then dozens of others connect. Then a movie. Maybe a movement, or least a stream of ideas we have ignored. This is good. Watch for it on PBS. “courtesy of Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart.”
It was snowing so hard that the 10 inches on the ground seemed like a warning. I had been in the office for 10 hours and had 1/2 hour of light left. So I walked.
It took 15 minutes, normally t10. But it took longer because I said hi to some old friends
My vision ended my application to be considered for the Navy ROTC program. My vision was 20-40, and the program, during the Vietnam War that was still raging, only wanted those who could be pilots, thus needed 20-20 vision for consideration. I asked for a waiver, and was denied.
7 weeks ago we did not have a clue. It was February. Those Chinese had a problem, again, but it was not our problem. And Wednesday was Ash Wednesday. I was buying Birthday Books for my wife, and launched on a mission.
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)