The Quest for Self-Actualization

Line like a sidewinder Abutting line holds the structure Form like a seven entwined Integrity internal to the lines

The view was framed by flat white illuminated by a diffused LEDs. The aperture appeared as a wallpaper centered on the wall, dimensionless in depth though the space beyond stretches toward effective infinity. The designers didn’t want the frame for this view, attempting to make the expanse a room-sized diorama, but the engineers could not… Continue reading Free from Descent

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Date & Setting (250)Character Emotional Development (250)GoalDramatic Action (250)Conflict (250)ChangeThematic Significant Details

The façade shows like a block standing as tall as the neighbor’s maple trees, two stories in the air with a white trimmed gabled roof end facing the street. The newly installed black asphalt shingles stretch out beyond the roof rake. A stone base lifts the clapboard building up above the balding fescue yard and… Continue reading Opening

I hadn’t seen him for twenty-eight years. The patches of fescue that encircle occasional bare, black spots of soil wiggle in the light prairie wind. Within this swath a sidewalk with joints every pace guides me to the familiar stoop that was the pedestal and backdrop for games with the neighbor kids and occasional family… Continue reading Enter

I believe it is important for writing to support my architecture, and so the writing will be about some facet of this. I have a great deal of time invested in the relationship of preposition to space, but there is also my research into design and the senses. For fun, I have two ideas for… Continue reading Choices

The areas where I believe I am strongest, architecture, engineering, writing, and art, have an external and an internal effect, as I head toward some level of self actualization. In architecture and engineering, I can shape buildings and cities to combat climate change and its impact, while creating designs that are clever and pleasing to… Continue reading External and Internal

People search for the meaning of life, but I believe it does not matter as long as whatever someone does helps the human condition in some way. We have a responsibility to make things better, and I think ultimately we need to be able to leverage our way out of a reaction to the nature… Continue reading Meaning

Although there has been some failure, I find myself to be in a place where I can build on my success and become better, while looking at the bigger questions. I expect it to be trial and error, narrowing in on what it is to be me. This is a kind of quest, and it… Continue reading Here We Go