February 2012
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“All Indo-Germanic pilgrims—Greek, Indic, Nordic, and Celtic—cross...”
– “H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness”
Ivan Illich
Carlo Scarpa, Brion Cemetery (San Vito d’Altivole, Italia)
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Multiplicity and Memory
Interview with Peter Zumthor
During the first planning stage, you think of the needs of the place and what it lacks. Then how does the planning evolve?
I don’t only think of the place: I visit it, because it’s a physical experience and all can be thought as being in the place. In architecture, there’s always an underlying need. I think of the utilization: is what I do valuable? Do I like it? And...
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Mortality Immortality?
“Is contemporary art only for contemporary times? The answer to this question, one of several about the mortality and immortality of contemporary artaddressed in this book is, in its simplest form, no. …It is, however, vexing that this question is posed at all, for it displays a profound uncertainty about the art of our time.”
The Case Against Amnesia
James Coddington
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Instead of bookmarking all 50 tabs I have open,
I think I’ll just post things here. It’ll help me organize my thoughts and links.
Modellare la natura
The landscape intervention guideline was to clean up all the incoherent additions piled up during the years. Therefore, the main work was to eliminate and shape trees, to get back visual cones and glimpses. This procedure allowed for beautiful balances and geometrical effects. A...
December 2011
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On the plane from Zurich to Chicago,
I watched “Another Earth.” The themes in that movie echoed what I was feeling then, and to some extent, what I’m feeling now also. Regret. Much regret. What she regretted was her naïveté, her choices, her carelessness. I think themes like these hit me hardest. “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso” was that way also: making mistakes, foolish choices, though perhaps they were...
November 2011
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“What I need is resurrection; what is need is for You to put me back on my feet.”
September 2011
2 posts
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Beneath the longing to possess and to be possessed by the beauty of another—to know, in the Biblical idiom—there lies a longing, closer to the heart of the matter still, which is the longing to be at last where we finally belong….
When I think of all the beautiful ones whom I have seen for maybe no more than a passing moment and have helplessly, overwhelmingly desired, I wonder if at the...
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“I don’t have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way...”
July 2011
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The call to the cloister demanded of Luther the complete surrender of his life…but God shattered all his hopes. He showed him through the Scriptures that the following of Christ is not the achievement or merit of a select few, but the divine command to all Christians without distinction. Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and...
May 2011
1 post
Glory
Jesus gives us God. God is our highest treasure, our greatest delight, our deepest joy. Our most profound happiness is that God loves us, that God knows us, that God cares for us, that God has given himself to us and that we get to live for his glory. Not that we have to, but that we get to. We get to finally do the singular cause for which we were made: to glorify God.
—Mark Driscoll
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March 2011
2 posts
Don't forgive from a pedestal. →
Perhaps an even more telling gauge of our self-righteousness is the stance from which we offer our forgiveness to those who have wronged us. Is our forgiveness offered from a pedestal?
When sinned against, it is easy to occupy a superior position, extending forgiveness like a benevolent dictator to those who demonstrate their sincere repentance. Our stance is top down; our demeanor is...
Bitterness and Fear
Not exactly the things I like to think about. Having a faint nudging that perhaps I am still afraid, still bitter. What? Haven’t I let go of that? I was fine for two whole weeks. But things are coming back, maybe not in specifics, but in broader terms.
Will I be able to take anyone’s words seriously ever again? Will I be able to learn trust after feeling defrauded, lied to, tricked,...
February 2011
2 posts
where did I go wrong?
i lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness.
forgiveness is hard.
so is forgetting.
November 2010
2 posts
“Thus the very hour of disillusionment with my brother becomes incomparably...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
October 2010
2 posts
“Surely we only have to be realistic and honest with ourselves to know how...”
– Donald Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Love is Waiting - Brooke Fraser
In the autumn on the ground, between the traffic and the ordinary sounds, I am thinking signs and seasons, while a north wind blows through.
I watch lovers pass me by: walking stories - who’s and how’s and why’s, musing lazily on love.
Pondering you; I’ll give it time, give it space, and be still for a spell. When it’s time to walk that way, we want to walk it...
August 2010
2 posts
“Earthly society is only the beginning of heavenly society, the earthly home an...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
“The challenge before us then is not merely to do what God says because He is...”
– John Piper, “How do dead people battle with sin?”
July 2010
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“What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which...”
– J. I. Packer
May 2010
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April 2010
3 posts
“My God, only You could show me what a wretched sinner I am and make it the...”
– Living the Cross-Centered Life
C.J. Mahaney
March 2010
4 posts
“I should probably say that I’m unsure why I’m running,
running...”
– “The One I Love”
Greg Laswell
For some reason,
the fewer hours of sleep I get, the better my skin is.
What I am working on at 5:19AM: housing for Chinese migrant construction workers.
In 1717, Louis XIV of France died.
Louis who called himself “the Great,” was the monarch who declared, “I am the State!” His court was the most magnificent in Europe and his funeral the most spectacular. His body lay in a golden coffin. To dramatize his greatness, orders had been given that the cathedral would be very dimly lighted with only a special candle set above the coffin. Thousands waited in hushed...
“He humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food...”
– Deuteronomy 8:3, 5
Not going to sleep for the next two nights.
February 2010
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This is probably my first year observing Lent.
At least, I will try to.
Fasting from:
Gtalk. Well, not entirely. I’m definitely going to on less often, but if I am on, no one would be able to tell because I’ll be invisible.
Online Shopping. Even though I never buy anything, I realize that it is incredibly time-consuming. I’ve already broken it, because I shopped online with my sister for 3 hours yesterday.
Thinking...
January 2010
3 posts
I want a lot of things.
I spend my days thinking about what I want and my hours trying to get what I want. That may sound completely self-involved, but think about your own days and hours. We want food and we go get it. We want coffee and there’s a Starbucks every 1.2 miles. We want sleep, we take a nap. We want to talk, we flip open our cell phones or hop on the computer. We want to express ourselves, so we laugh...
December 2009
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home.
it’s good to be here. =D
November 2009
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It's not easy
to be what I should be.
August 2009
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"Be joyful. Grow to maturity. Encourage each...
2 Corinthians 13:11 NLT
Guilt is not strong enough to turn us away from our sins and toward God.
Grace is.
Oh my my!
Jennifer: its 96 right now
and 87 in my room
me: whoa
WHAT A HOTTIE
Jennifer: its gonna be 99 tomorrow waaaahhh
hAHHAHA
ew
July 2009
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I have 5 bookmarks in my Bible: one in...
I am currently reading Deuteronomy, Psalms (on and off), 2 Corinthians, Ecclesiastes, and James. In addition, I have six post-its throughout various books. Sometimes, when I don’t feel like reading any of the above bookmarked passages, I flip to a random page. Sometimes I bookmark that one, too.
Talk about a short attention span.
June 2009
3 posts
“Get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God...”
– James 1:21 NLT.
Difficult, difficult verse.
Logo design is more difficult that I could have...
May 2009
10 posts
"Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry...
Matthew 11:28-9 NLT
I really need to get back on track.
I've been meaning to go through the things I've...
There are so many things that I think of randomly, or things that come to my mind when I talk to people, that it’s almost impossible for me to make a comprehensive list of everything [non-academic] that I’ve learned from my first year at college. Maybe I can make a list-in-progress sort of thing. I’ll see.
Today was probably the first real talk this summer I had with my mom....
“I guess I’m the only normal one here.”
– Grace Lee. 20 May 2009.
I write down things I have to do for the day, but...
I end up finding things that I have to do that I haven’t written down, and then I end up going off on tangents, branching out until I’m spread thin like not enough butter on too much bread, and it’s time to sleep and nothing’s done.
“We do what you would do if you know what we know.”
– We’re a passionate team of people. We do what we do because we love what we do. So much, in fact, that we spend way too much time working on buildings and not enough on other things like… having a life.” Church Lukas, Architecture + Building Consultancy
“But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as...”
– Job 23:10-15