As you enter this house the front door is like a small portal in a large wall of glass. It blends in with no statement of its own. Stepping into the house you look immediately ahead to the dining alcove. The alcove is fitted with lovely built in cherry wood shelving seating and storage under […]
One of the challenges as we rush head long into vanishing time as we know it, is that we are confronted with the breakdown of one our most cherished concepts, that one individual can know it all, and take care of things. Perhaps it is comforting simply to be able to point a finger at […]
Like a good health drink there are several items that can go into a blend designed to help transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. First of all how many times have you seen that bumper sticker that says, “Expect a Miracle.” I don’t know about you, but miracles fall into that sort of “Oh my […]
This last week I attended my 50th high school reunion in Tallahassee, Florida. It was a wonderful place to grow up and a wonderful time. We were blessed to be in the slipstream of the promise of the American Dream. The town seemed like one big middle class to us. Kids all kind of seemed alike. […]
I was watching the Charlie Rose Show the other evening and he was interviewing Joel kotkin, the author of the The Next Hundred Million, a book about the next hundred million people to be added to the current population of the United States. Kotkin is a demographer. Aside from his prediction that the opportunity will accrue […]
In the last post I showed you pictures of the narrow rather undramatic entrance. You would have no idea what you were to see as you entered this narrow passageway. These additional photos show the passageway emerging to the front of the house, a view from the other side of the house looking across to […]
In the last post I showed you the approach to the house is from the back and side. The idea is that you walk past the carport and the plantings on the right which forces you to focus on a very narrow tunnel like breezeway. You enter this house as if going into a birthing […]
One of the unfortunate products of the internet and the technology revolution is that we are on sensory overload. Information is pouring in akin to your kitchen sink spigot delivering water like a fire hydrant. Not only will the volume increase, but the pace also. In the Summer 2010 “special Issue of The Futurist magazine it states: […]
