@jonah Welcome baby Declan! Wishing you all much joy.
@jonah Welcome baby Declan! Wishing you all much joy.
@isaacgreene Loved reading this. I really, really struggled with three very small ones. Once everyone got to age 4, every year got easier. And “two years of struggling starts to come undone” is the truest expression of faith I’ve heard in a minute. Thanks.
@isaacgreene Beautiful!
@ayjay <3
@jabel @JohnBrady Thanks to both of you.
@todd Thank you!
@isaacgreene It is! Though, gosh, I bet teaching music is great.
@mwerickson Not exactly open submissions — she volunteered to do another whole liturgical cycle. (Though the church does have that open spirit; if any particular person wanted to take it on, the answer would most likely be yes!)
@jaheppler @wcaleb @bethanyh Thank you all — will pass along to her.
@KyleEssary I am enthralled with his whole “hinges of history” concept and series.
@lukemperez Thinking of you all.
@todd Little Seed Farm cream deodorant is excellent (so many natural deodorants don’t work for me.) See the wood applicator. Note small travel packs too.
@spgreenhalgh zzzzzing!
@dwalbert Yeah, there’s something weirdly comforting about knowing Alexander and co are naming Really Obvious Things — but things that deserve formal codification as recognizably human!
@isaacgreene Beautiful!
@towittowoo I’ll be curious to hear how it lands!
@annahavron indeed — best empirical data
@ffmike That makes sense. And understood re: the memories! Just tracing lightly how it showed up in pedagogies that folks even broadly recall. Cheers.
@isaacgreene ❤️
@ffmike That’s lovely. Do you recall if you were taught it in studio vs seminar/history?
@bethanyh Oof, you said it. There are so many moments in that book where I’m like; OF COURSE, and WHYYYY.
@annahavron I love that. And Child Caves! Surely one of the sturdiest universals in good design.
@JohnBrady Just that objectivity doesn’t mean specific styles of columns, for example. Or columns at all. The pattern is more directional than directive. (Trying to write about this, so the specifics matter to me, but yes, we’re likely on same page!)
@JohnBrady @readerjohn I actually think the ingenious identification of patterns helps the book avoid going all the way to objective beauty in the stylistic sense. Broader, more capacious than that, allowing for global variation.
@ReaderJohn I have this working theory that it’s not taught because it implies universals, you know? Not a style guide or set of blueprints, but patterns as an affirmation of recognizable Good Design (and therefore Bad Design).