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27 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
CITY:
* You become depersonalized object to others
* Pricey, endless status games
* Another human always 30ft away or less when pooping
* Eat bugs

VILLAGE:
* Say good morning to people on your walk
* Build things outside in spare time
* Closest pooper is a bear
* Bugs eat you
(I jest of course. what really matters is the urge to move vs the urge to endure. and to ask ourselves: if the world is full of enchantment, and we want to see that enchantment, where can our senses grow sharper?)
Yes, of some respects. Reminded of GKC:

"...for there is one respect in which a town must be more poetical than the country, since it is closer to the spirit of man; for London, if it be not one of the masterpieces of man, is at least one of his sins."

wheezing over the fact I cannot reply good morning to this giant rubber duck because he clicked the (city person) "who can reply" button

also excuse me twitter I am mentioned right there
I have been clear about my plans for this!!

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27 Sep
new york city is 4(?) hours away and I have never been
I did go to NYC one time for mere hours, for a google conference in 2013, when they were trying to recruit me. I stayed with a friend in CT and took a train in the next morning, and went from the station platform to the subway...
When the subway car came, everyone to the left and right of me slammed into it, like self-canning sardines, as I stood there. I think I was the only person who did not get on. I got on the next train.
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24 Sep
Before/after on the (ongoing) stone work ImageImage
Progress studies

had no budget when we built the house so wood stairs.
Then granite stairs and tiny brick patio (that I made and then tore up). Now bigger patio and arc of stone ImageImageImageImage
these are taken from the same spot, September 2018 vs today

funny how the brush pile renews itself... ImageImage
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19 Sep
The beauty of a place is often not in any singular monument but in what is repeated: cobblestones, limestone walls, cafes, alleyways, patches of moss.

Many times what makes a place cheerful or charming are features one might simply miss the first time they go by.
Everywhere contains its own secret places that do not reveal themselves without first idling with them for some time. One must go by or through several times before the place will let you see the genius of it, which will only then inspire you.
So it is with people. Their essences are not in identity" markers or clothing, but in the subtle and repeated patterns that they carry out.

You are not some outgrowth of self-applied labels, you are not one heroic or tragic act. But you are what you do every day.
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18 Sep
sorry, I'm taken
(these are old pics, we grow our own eggs now)
I buy both! Both are great.

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4 Aug
Philosophy begins in wonder. Religion is similar. Through the sacred it places you in wonder, allows you to dwell in wonder.

It is through this state of wonder that we are able to begin contemplating (philosophy) or enacting ritual (religion).
Over the centuries there has been a shift, one difficult to summarize. One point of it: Instead of springing from the well of the world, their focal point became the individual, and this has injured both subjects.
Calculation has replaced contemplation. People worry about the result before they even begin thinking. If they really do think.

Arendt once said, "To expect truth from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know."
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23 Jul
it is unfortunate that some people's boredom gets inflicted on everybody

(this is a Netherlands based architecture firm but don't worry they "have a global scope")
this won an award
Those were their photos/renderings of course. Let's look at it In Real Life. Not optimistic about the prospects of this community garden.

If I was the home depot bargain bin I guess I might give it an award.
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