Kay, another passing-the-time because I'm bored and jobless post... and after this I plan on starting my mini-model. (I promise..?) For this magical post, I will flip to a page in five books and then write the most inspiring thing I can find from the spread. I was once told during a Homily that this is the absolute worst way to read the Bible, but little did I know that... it's how I had been 'reading' the Bible for years, and it can actually be surprisingly insightful... kind of like Homilies themselves, or horoscopes off the internet it's all chance, a little vague and can pretty much apply to a myrad of situations.
Anyways, here goes:
1 - "the outer walls are wrapped around the baldachins, and make the interior present in the urban environment" - on St. John on the Rock, Prague from Norberg-Schulz
2 - "Designing is inventing. When I was in the arts and crafts school, we tried to follow this principle... we felt it was important to be avant-garde. Not until later did I realise that there are basically only a very few architectural problems for which a valid solution has not been found... On the search for the architecture that I envisage, I frequently experience stifiling moments of emptiness. Nothing I can think of seems to tally with what I want and cannot yet envisage. At these moments, I try to shake off the academic knowledge of architecture I have aquired, because it has suddenly started to hold me back. This helps. I find I can breathe more freely. I catch a whiff of the old familiar mood of the inventors and pioneers. Design has once again become invention. The creative act in which a work of architecture comes into being goes beyond all historical and technical knowledge." - Peter Zumthor from a section titled 'Common Sense'
3 - "It is no different from saying I am a runner when I first start out and in reality I'm just a klutz in the present moment. And it is no different from saying you are a writer after you've written your first shaky paragraph and don't believe you can go on." - Natalie Goldberg from a chapter called ' Enlightenment'
4 - " Every other month I am ready to quit writing. The inner dialogue goes something like this: 'This is stupid. I am making no money, there's no career in poetry, no one cares about it, it's lonely, I hate it, it's dumb, I want a regular life'. These thoughts are torture. Doubt is torture. If we give ourselves fully to something it will be clearer when it might be appropriate to quit. It is a constant test of preserverence... 'I think I'll go into sales, open up a cafe so other writers can go there, sip cappuchino and write, or get married, have babies, be a homemaker and make wonderful chicken dinners.'" - Natalie Goldberg from a chapter called ' Doubt is Torture'
5 - "Inca architecture - architecture of the Quechuan people who migrated into the Cuzco area about AD 1100 and ruled Peru until the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, characterized especially by strong simple forms of smooth ashlar or polygonal masonry which was cut, finished, and fitted with great precision without the use of iron or chisels." - Francis Ching
There are your words of wisdom for today... or my words of wisdom. Have to say, the fourth one really hit home with the whole losing-of-the-job ordeal/ the questioning my major etc etc... and I guess the same could be said for the third one as well, I mean in my mind Natalie Goldberg just speaks to me sooo... yea. Words of wisdom all the time from her. Her books are like the fairy godmother of the entire printed world. Just sayin'..
- c
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