Perfection or Progress?
I grew up with “practice makes perfect”. My son came home from middle school with “practice makes progress”. I find this changed rendition much, much […]
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Riff on Revkin: The Potential of Puberty
The world I live in heals me and frustrates me. This world that is so placidly beautiful and stable, while simultaneously cruel, shortsighted, and unresolved. […]
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This is Inequity
I often ride my bike to work. I try to do this on good weather days in the summer and start as early as I […]
Continue reading »It’s So Beautiful, It Almost Looks Fake.
My mom was not a good cook, having been brought up in the time of “Mock Apple Pie” made with Ritz crackers and without apples […]
Continue reading »Communication: Perception vs. (?) Reality
I had an interesting and incredibly revealing discourse on FB today. In brief, I posted a meme, which was naturally oversimplified and declarative, and spend […]
Continue reading »Four Things We Must Change (to change the world)
We need to change some things if we want to change the world. I see four distinct items in New York State public work delivery […]
Continue reading »Politics and Perceptions
It happened a few weeks ago that I tuned into the radio after the start of a report on education. I found myself agreeing with […]
Continue reading »Integrative Process 3: Purpose
Another interesting facet of Integrative Process is that what you are working ON is not really what you are working FOR. A building is not […]
Continue reading »Design and Yoga FIVE: Growth and Time
There never seems to be a project just beginning, one with a savvy and trusting owner, with a full project team excited to begin a […]
Continue reading »Integrative Process 2: Reciprocity
I was listening to the soundtrack from “Chicago” today, on my way to the NYS Green Building Conference in Syracuse, NY. One of my favorite […]
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