One feels enfolded here in nature’s embrace, enraptured by the fondest alliance of kindred Pacific Northwest woods and water. To arrive here, once, or every day, is to nestle into a sanctuary, balance ever prevailing, […]

The views from nearly every window, though spectacular, do not diminish nor distract in the least from the sublimely essential harmony, palpably felt in the tranquility it inspires, within every room and corner of this […]

Valiantly overwhelming all spatial constriction, this home, in ebullient yet unpretentious elegance, refinement, grace, consciously bids one explore to one’s heart’s content in the constant revelation of wonder. Simply put, a transcendent joy to behold.  […]

When a stone penetrates uninvited the stillness of your pond, swallow it without resistance – generously, graciously – envelop it, allow it to reach your depth unimpeded, to join all the other stones which have […]

Perhaps those who painted on the walls of caves were grappling with the seeming contradiction of wildness and wiseness, of wildness and domestication, of the instinctual and the defined, of mystery unveiled, of domination and […]

We remember what makes an impression of us. When you meet someone for the first time, even briefly, perhaps just a glimpse, the sound of a voice, the smell, if the impression left is strong […]

When I want to remember something, I snap on it. I conscientiously look at at, study it, running through a thorough inventory of details in my head, committing each one separately to indelible memory. With […]

Heaven has its seasons; Earth, its qi; materials, their aesthetic qualities; and craftsmen and women, their skill. Correct timing or harmonizing with the changing seasons in carrying out practical, mechanical, or technical activities is essential, […]