air conditioning
One of the first warm spring days. A pleasure to walk outdoors, sun warm on back and head air cool on arms and face. Torture to sit at my desk in my cubicle, not...
Monthly Archive: March 2016
cutting through complexity
The drive to overcomplicate things. The drive to prevent a solution by citing complexity. Holding on to the complexity for fear of a solution? A disciplined way to tackle a complex problem, seeking a...
traditional path
Complex knot of expectations, avoidances, seeking, and dismissals. Since childhood, I’ve been averse to “phases,” want to exist outside of these traditional expectations. Yet the time is right for this for me, the time...
long view
Took a side trail on my circumambulation of Steichen’s Pond today – the Stuart Chase Long View Trail – not all way – started to not know where I was and backtracked – but...
demolition
It’s shocking, to just go ahead and tear down a wall. Dust control in place, rigged up with plastic sheet and leftover pieces of wood. Industrial vacuum running underneath to suck up particles that...
“the persuasion and glory of mid-March”
Great day in New York today. Took Citibike, did some shopping, went to hear Bernadette Mayer at Poet’s House, and sketched. Repeatedly. After 11 tries, a vague resemblance. I learned to find the geometry...
upper hook
Walk today after early morning snow stopped falling. Upper Hook Road, where I walked once before and got surprised by sudden nightfall. Today these icicles around tree roots and the sudden death of my...