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Things built

Ongoing saga

January 30, 2004

How’s this for a laugh? No, I am not displaying my collection of stainless cooking pots on the floor of the living room because they look good there. Rather, they have been strategically placed to capture the many drips of water coming off the ceiling. A week and a half ago I wrote how I [...]

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Two down

January 23, 2004

Just when you think that everything is done and you can kick back and enjoy the fruits of your labor, there comes a kick of a different sort. After all the planning on where to put up the eight tents for the RISD students, the one area that I thought was the most sheltered from [...]

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Another lesson

January 20, 2004

Once again I have found reason to smile at the appropriateness of the naming of this blog journal, “Life on the Edge”. From all that surrounds me, analogies can be drawn to guide, inspire and instruct. With enough time, I might gain a modicum of wisdom from the many small lessons thrown up here at [...]

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Dampening fire

November 12, 2003

To be prepared for the destructive aspects of a fire, any fire, requires time, effort and money into setting up a system that is in place if need be. Hopefully, though, the system will never be called upon to water down the encroaching fire, real or otherwise. What I am asking is what do I [...]

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A trail of nails

May 23, 2003

In one of Rainer Maria Rilke‘s poems, he asks of us: “Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well.” “Your eyes find it hard to tear themselves from the sloping threshold…” Well, Rilke is correct in one sense: I never fail to find joy in looking [...]

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Windgrove building

January 10, 2003

Located approximately in the middle of this photo is a two thousand square foot house, an office, a toilet block, a sculpture studio, a 30 foot Bedford bus, two shipping containers and three water tanks. Having trouble finding them? This is because a very important design consideration at Windgrove is to build so that no [...]

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