Everything is Illuminated

This is one of my favourite excerpts from one of my favourite books, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.  What a beautiful image he has painted. “From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be mistaken for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut’s eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - metropolises will be seen from space. They...

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t.  What you’ve got to

‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen

‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen zero percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’

architectureilove)">Le Corbusier [(Oct 6, 1887 – Aug 27, 1965) Swiss-born French architect] (via architectureilove)

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

words by Ira Glass. I know that 99% of the time I am dissatisfied in some way or another with my wor