Tools To Build

I'm inspired by the layering of words, the hand created and space. Who we are and how we live. How the built environment can move us forward and create change. 

This is my intention. Modus operandi. My self expression and means to hopefully affect the future positive or at least soften and inspire the now. This is my nerd in full bloom. Humble offering. 

To build a bridge.

Extend my reach.

To hold a hand.

Release my breath.

To stand in place.

And look beyond.

It is my desire to use these tools to build a nurturing structure, mentally, emotionally and physically. Something for myself and beyond myself. A breathe of fresh air. An umbrella expanding. 

This is what I hope to achieve and hope to leave. Not as pure legacy but honest effort.

To never give up.

CB 06/24/18

Idea To Action

It is the power of doing that heals a society. The ointment to the wound. The words, deeds and the inspiration of beauty that moves us forward and through. That spins the negative and shows its opposite. Righting the wrongs and calming the whirling mind. 

Through the endeavors of a society, a society can be saved or at least changed by way of circles of influence and circles of shelters. Gestures of force, strong hold and soft stroke. A shout, a chant and silent poetry. 

It is through the act of doing that we are at our strongest as we are emotional and physical beings. Doers, makers and dreamers. We respond through vision and act accordingly. All roads lead to inspiration as all acts end in results. 

We were born with the innate ability to change as time has proven. The creative arenas of art, design, architecture, tech and language are our tools of change. Our vehicles through. But it is not by way of positive happenstance that changes occur. It is through determination. Our birthright of freedom and will. 

Our current world is the culmination of our doing. Of our activity and passivity. Years, days and moments.  Results are what we give them as our futures are what we make of them. Control aside, we have compassion, intellect and human endurance. We have what we need to move forward as need turns to must. Idea to action. 

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I lean in with the push of desire.

Gentle gesture, forward.

Compass in hand.

Making my way. 

CB 06/23/18

No Torch So Bright

It is said that a country can be judged by the way it treats its children, and this country, these states united are being judged by the decision of a few on the lives of many. 

We have experienced a heavy action with lasting ripples. An acton that goes beyond understanding. Beyond into the blackness of hell I've heard so much about. We are loosing our way. No torch so bright can shine for us, but us.

Our actions from here on will tell the story of a country so great or a country lost. It is our collective conscience that will determine the road forward. That will build the bridge or raise the wall. 

We have learned many lessons, taught many wrong doings. Skinned our knees and bare the scars of many years. Our country by virtue of its surroundings and histories is now an old soul. A complicated one. Built on the possibilities of freedom. On the words of "I have a dream" and the actions of marches. 

It is through our conception as a country that we will find our way.  Through our voices, our actions and our humanity. This is what freedom does. What being united means. 

A choir of many. A bee in the hive. 

CB 06/22/18

The Collective Future

It can be said with much truth that life is what we make it, how we create it. For ourselves and for others. 

Albiet in this era a difficult challenge, it's a challenge that can be met. A challenge I choose to accept. It is a future vision that I hold and a current task I take one step at a time. Sometimes I stumble like a bull in a china cabinet, breaking things as I force my way through. Other times my path is clear, especially when I see the bigger picture. The collective future. 

I am often inspired by the deeds of others. Their personal pasts and forward endeavors. This is what compels me. Pulls me forward. Feeds my passion and wonder. It is through others and for others that this moves me. It is at times mere words that catapults my intentions. Raises the hair on my skin and temperature of my blood. It too at times, is the acts of kindness that sets my desires forward. Pushes me. Hits me with a force of energy that sets my body ablaze with tingles. Shuddered exhilaration. 

It is through action that moves life forward, but is through human desire that gives it meaning. That feeds perseverance. The fire in the belly feeds the fire on the horizon. And the flicker in the eye warms the touch. It is our innate humanity that inspires. The seed within that can branch and blossom. It is this one thing that can set ablaze our world. Set it so bright and change its current course, move it just so. 

I am inspired by the thought of this, ready for the act of it. Already on the path, following others lead. 

CB 06/16/18

Design

 As our dissatisfaction with government grows and our concerns with the environment never lessening, it makes increasing sense that how we live would take a higher importance, a higher urgency as these realities run towards us. 

This is not an issue of what's trendy or chic. It is an issue of fulfillment of life. Meaning and purpose. A means to an end or at least to a journey. A layering of joy and hope in the center of reality. Life lessons. Life skills. 

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that it will not break it kills."                                                                                            

~Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps design should be seen more as a means to mend and fortify.  An elixir. Choir song and affirmation. If seen in this light, design could be used as an added tool in an ever growing need of defense. A utility of will, bandage or crutch. Hope and change in a fucked up world.

Design in this era can and should be seen as an action. To build and create, resolve and predict. To not only celebrate our imperfections but to know we have choices as to how to navigate the broken landscape. To move forward as we create, forward. 

"We all inhabit dwellings of some kind; the more thoughtful the attention we exert upon them, the more our infrastructure - our whole built world - is beautified."                    

 ~Carl Dellatore, Interior Design Master Class

Design touches our lives in many ways. We know this. And in this era, design can and will be our savior. Our shield, sword and final word. In our homes, neighborhoods and marches, design today is our moral investment.  Reality meets vision, affects future.

CB 06/14/18