"Over the great doorway of one of New York’s skyscraping office buildings three colossal sculptured figures are posed in crouching attitudes. With their great bowed heads, grimly tense features, and muscles strained like whip- cords they seem to hold on their broad shoulders the terrific weight of twenty or more stories of solid masonry. They …
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Carpe diem or Carpe per diem?
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. -- Frank Lloyd Wright A master builder, a rebel and a nature worshipper, Frank Lloyd Wright's career spanned 70 years and resulted in the design of 1,141 buildings, including churches, schools, libraries, houses, bridges, museums and more. Though Wright is …
Poetry to my ears…
Fox News reported last evening that lawmakers and the White House don't act unless they're backed into a corner. I nearly fell off the treadmill when I began to consider the implications of that statement! I've observed that tendency in individuals, but to see it institutionalized brought the bad habit to a whole new level. Do you …
Gregory Hake 