The Circus and the Sausage Factory

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

“We have now sunk

In Conflict

“The wise do not quarrel.
So, no one quarrels with them.
Therefore, the ancients say,
‘Yield and Overcome!’”
— Lao Tsu…Tao Te Ching

You’ve been there: that much too intense moment when that other person, (lover, spouse, colleague,

Do You Believe in Music?

“He who sings prays twice.”
— Augustine

“Funny thing about memory: it has so many layers.”
— L. T. Harriman

The hotel hallway runs the length of the building, conference rooms marching left, right, left, down to the end. Each door is open, awaiting attendees for insurance training,

Embodied Philosophy

Meditations on Corporate Architecture

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”
— Constantin Brancusi
Sculptor (1876 – 1957)

“Music is liquid architecture. Architecture is Frozen Music.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A great architect is not made by way of the brain

Shovel & Pink Tights

The circus came to town. Dad and I made the trip to see the parade down 4th Avenue. Later that night we saw the Main Event under the Big Top! The Elephants were my favorites — a long line of them. There, sitting atop the leader, at the head of the column, was a girl in pink tights and a satin leotard, her blonde hair pulled tightly back in a jaunty pony tail! She had the best job in the world!

Later, during the show, I saw her again as the Elephants took their places in the center ring