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Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, argued in a postscript to his memoir Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) that in the midst of despair, tragedy and suffering we can still find – indeed, create – meaning by embracing what he called ‘tragic optimism’. This odd kind of optimism allows us to remake ourselves and our worlds, despite what Frankl calls the ‘tragic triad’ of pain, guilt and death. ...

So tragic optimism calls for letting go of our happiness-seeking tendencies. We face the difficult process of world-repair through the restoration of meaning – through our work, our relationships, and through engaging with suffering itself. And what this requires is not a denial of trauma’s existence, of its destructive powers, but the deliberate decision to act in ways that affirm our shared humanity by sustaining each other’s lifeworlds. Trauma unmakes the world of the self. Can stories repair it? 

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i absolutely love when brutalist buildings are surrounded by and covered in a bunch of greenery. the juxtaposition……

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doesn’t get better than this

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Midcentury Woven Chair

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Le Corbusier, Courtyard

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Before you get mad at your partner for not doing what you expect them to do, Stop and ask yourself “have I ever communicated to them that I have this expectation?” If you have not, it’s unfair to expect them to read your mind.

So many arguments are saved by just opening your mouth and saying “hey hun, in the future can you….” Whether its articulating how you like to be loved, supported, or communicated with, you have to open your mouth. Your soul mate (IMO) isn’t the person that just always knows what you need when you need it without you telling them. Your soul mate is the person who hears your needs and thinks “I have no problem doing that because I love this person with my whole heart”

So check your attitude and open your mouth. Closed mouths don’t get fed.

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Miner Road House, San Francisco by Faulkner Architects | Photography by Joe Fletcher

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by shopundone http://ift.tt/25IZyYO

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http://edwardogosta.com/four-eyes-house/four-eyes-house-coachella-valley-modern-residential-edward-ogosta-architecture-9

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“One thing I wanted to tell you is that I often think about him,” Tamaru said. “Not that I want to see him again or anything. I really don’t. We wouldn’t have anything to talk about, for one thing. It’s just that I still have this vivid image of him ‘pulling rats out’ of blocks of wood with total concentration, and that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me something—or tried to. People need things like that to go on living—mental landscapes that have meaning for them, even if they can’t explain them in words. Part of why we live is to come up with explanations for these things. That what I think.” 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami p 646

[odaro]

house in district 7 / nishizawa architects

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War of Art The unlived life/Resistance  - late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you are meant to be - the warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day - it doesn’t ever get “easier” there will be easys days but you always need 100% effort - resistance is self sabotage - the awakening artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. once you make your break, you cant turn around for your buddy who catches his trouser leg on the barbed wire. the best thing you can do for that friend (and he’d tell you this himself, if he really is your friend) is to get over the wall and keep moving. - support your friends in their endeavors. dont bring them down, don’t hate. dont be jealous of their success. and your true friends should do the same. - never forget: this very moment, we can change our lives. there never was a moment and never will be when we are without the power to alter our destiny. - if something/someone make you feel empty, doubt yourself–avoid it. those things and people are not thinking of your best interests. a lot of times they are not worth investment and they will bring you down.  - don’t tolerate trouble. it’ll prevent you from work - self knowledge, self discipline, delayed gratification, hard work - don’t cast yourself as a victim - enact your own internal revolution > unplug yourself from the grid by recognizing that we will only cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to our work/by doing our work.  - fear is an indicator - it tell us what we have to do - the more scared the more you should do it. 

- do projects that make you stretch

-the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. 

- the more resistance you experience the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you and the more gratification you will feel when you finally do it/finish it. 

- success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work

- when you sulk in the injustices of your personal life, then less energy you have for your work

- rationalization keeps us from feeling the shame we  would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work

- resistance to your work is really just fear

amateur: plays for fun, game is hobby, plays part-time, weekend warrior professional: plays for keeps, game is vocation, plays full-time, 7-days a week

- people think amateur pursues his calling out of love while pro does it for money but in truth the amateur doesn't love the game enough. if he did he wouldn’t pursue it as a sideline distinct from his “real” vocation. the professional loves it so much he dedicates his life to it.  professional: shows up everyday no matter what stay on the job all day committed over the long haul stakes are high and real accepts remuneration for our labor do not over-identify with our jobs master the techniques receive praise/blame in the real world 

- put in the physical act of starting to work (a schedule) and a sequence of events that produces inspiration will set in motion

- the payoff of playing the game for money is that it produces the proper professional attitude 

-project take twice as long and costs twice as much

- sustain yourself with the knowledge that if you consistently work hard at it, you will reap what you sow 

- eliminate chaos in your life/mind so that your art may come clearly

- don’t wait for inspiration, act in anticipation of its appearance

- goal is to be steadfast, sturdy, steady, not necessarily victory (success will come by itself when it wants to)

- master technique so that when inspiration comes you have a set of skills to execute them properly 

- seat your professional consciousness in a place other than your personal ego

- we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor

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house 1 / alexis dornier

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House in Tinos Island, Greece by Zege Architects in collaboration with architect interior deigner Marilyn Katsaris Yatzer

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Villa Honora, Mykonos

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