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"We need more sensitive architecture. Furthermore, we need a mortal one, an idea that is completely out of the discussion in contemporary practice. The only sustainable architecture is one that subjects itself to time and decay. Maybe even celebrates these things."

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Andrew Bird - Tenuousness

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Those who guide us, who inspire us, having gone our way before, are now partners with us in building a better world. Any success we have is theirs as well as ours. To copy or imitate them should be only the beginning--the apprentice stage of life. It is fine to think, "What will a Shaker do? What would Scott Nearing have done? What would Gandhi have thought?" These are good exercises for the mind, a way of weighing ideas and contemplated actions, valuable so long as we do not follow anyone blindly. Only by standing on their shoulders can we build a better world, but we should use the wise as advisers, not masters.

William Coperthwaite, A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity

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William Coperthwaite's yurt. (Photo Source)

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The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

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Ellie Goulding’s cover of Your Song

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In most of his Socratic dialogues, what happens is, some guy is walking along the street who thinks he knows it all, and Socrates sits down with him and demolishes him. This might seem destructive, but the idea is that the nature of what is good is elusive. Sometimes people base their whole lives on a sincerely held belief that could be wrong. That's what my early books are about: people who think they know. But there is no Socrates figure. They are their own Socrates. There's a passage in one of Plato's dialogues in which Socrates says that idealistic people often become misanthropic when they are let down two or three times. Plato suggests it can be like that with the search for the meaning of the good. You shouldn't get disillusioned when you get knocked back. All you've discovered is that the search is difficult, and you still have a duty to keep on searching.

Kazuo Ishiguro on Plato (The Paris Review | The Art of Fiction No. 196)

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Conrad Jon Godly sol H, 2012

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Inside the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

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It makes me especially happy to know that they've kept the chandeliers after all this time too, in addition to the specimens photographed here.

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A visual history of typewriter art, from 1893 to today — how the humble typewriter empowered Victorian female stenographers to invent a unique art form that has gained newfound notoriety in the digital age

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Nonsense

You never remember things the same way. Memory is a variation of transcribing DNA, taking the original and making a copy. Except messier because the building blocks of memory are soluble; dip them in nostalgia or steep them in time and they dissolve into more of the same, which is different.

Memory is marred with deletions and insertions. The resulting mutation can be positive or negative, but most of the time it's a little bit of both. Your memory has sickle-cell anemia but it's immune to malaria and if anything this condition is a reminder to be careful with the past, which beats just like the present, which is the heart of your conundrum.

Actually, the root of all of this is a roof, or rather, the inability to picture it when you tried to draw your house the other day and had to leave it incomplete and how much this rattled you—

Notice that this is all nonsense. Allow words to become your pulse instead and marvel at how they travel by osmosis and steadily diffuse the tension between having to remember and having to live. Try not to forget this.

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