Tag: #dream

To Be

My career has primarily been houses, accessory dwelling units currently. But here is the thing I have been staring at, even with small dwellings, it seems that the thing we are tasked with is housing the stuff. The word change from house to dwelling has not been materialized. I mean to decipher this, beginning with the smallest unit. This week I introduce the Snug.

House: a verb meaning to provide with shelter, to serve as a container. Dwell: a verb meaning to live as a resident, to keep the attention directed.

I don’t need a place where I do nothing… do I? 

I don’t need a place where I do nothing… do I?  Snug: In the space between wake and sleep, we dream. At first you may find that nothing happens in your snug. But once you build it and use it, something will happen. The Lost Art of Doing Nothing  .   The Brain at Rest  .   Do Nothing  .  Niksen  .  you really don’t need to hear that doing nothing is where creativity rises, but perhaps what you might need to hear is that if you create a space for yourself and then develop a pattern of settling into that space, you might just find that remarkable things begin to happen. Lots of folks and lots of science dive into this. But sometimes it’s the poets that speak most clearly: What we dream becomes where we stand (TT Williams, from The Glorians). I have pulled away from learned places and distilled architecture to the essential molecules of place: light and earth. I call it Snug.