INTERSECTIONS OF NATURE, IMAGINATION and ARCHITECTURE
Monday, November 18, 2013
How Home Inspires Your Life Journey
One of the most important ways you can enrich the soulfulness of your
home is to make it a place that honors the process of living. I came
across a beautiful example of this at an apartment building in Santa
Rosa, California. Next to the entrance, a series of murals lovingly
depicts the passage from newborn infant to aged death. Images such as
this offer poignant reminders that moving from one stage of life another
is natural. What seems like a loss at a given moment can become a gain
at the next. Furthermore, these murals show us that we are not alone in
our day-to-day challenges and triumphs. Everyone inhabiting this
apartment building goes through them and these shared experiences make
us all members of the human family.
I'm an architect and author, writing this blog to explore the following questions—How do we live well on this planet? Confronted with the greed, ignorance and fear shaping much of the world, how can we find openings to dwelling here with wisdom, connection, creativity and delight? Looking into these questions reflects my passion for understanding how our thoughts and actions shape buildings and cities. My two books—THE TEMPLE IN THE HOUSE and A HOME FOR THE SOUL—examine the idea of design as a language of human experience. This blog expands these connections to explore how imagination influences what we build in nature. In turn, it looks into ways nature can open our imaginations to more inspiring, sustainable and creative ways of dwelling here now. Let me know what you think.
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