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, […]
Eagledale Mid-century Modern
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 […]
Port Blakely Waterfront
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. […]
Refuge
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 […]
Wildness and wiseness
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 […]
Unforgettable
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 […]
Snap
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 […]
Light and dark
The mediums of darkness may tell us the truth. The brilliance of light may blind. White is not always light; black is not always dark.
改善 – Continuous improvement
改善 (gǎishàn – Mandarin Chinese; kaizen – Japanese) – Continuous improvement – change for good, i.e., change for the better.
风水 – 相关宇宙学 – Correlative Cosmology
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, […]