The Highest Form of Architecture

The Highest Form of Architecture

In the fall of October 2008 , I learned what words can mean and how they can make you feel. I was working 50 miles from home that sunny fall day, the trees had amazing color , the wind had that cool breeze , there was a faint smell of burning wood in the air. Thinking to myself that day how amazing life is and how grateful I am to be in this place at this time in my life…   Later that morning my phone rang it was my wife…She had gone over my folks house to “check in.” My mother was helping out at the school that day so dad was home alone…She told me you better come home something is wrong with your father. Now that’s words you never want to hear… My Dad was having a stroke…I rushed toward home driving like a madman…On my way home my wife called me to tell me my Dad was now at the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital he was is in the emergency room the doctors were trying to figure out what to do to save his life…It was determined my Dad needed to go to Mass General Hospital in Boston Mass via Medflight. I can remember as they loaded Dad into the Medflight I asked the doctor what were his chances ??? He turned and looked me dead in the eye and said…Son your Dad has a 50/50 percent chance of survival !!!!  More words I didn’t want to hear…Was my Dad going to be called up to the next Journey today ?? I...
Attention

Attention

Over this past weekend we turned our clocks back one hour, for now it’s getting up going to work in the dark and getting home in the dark…It’s an amazing time of year here in Maine most of the leaves have fallen off the trees (and are all over my lawn) The weather is getting colder every day, that morning breath of air is so pure this time of year it makes you feel fantastic !! On Sunday we had heavy winds the leaves were blowing all over the yard it looks like a cyclone went through here. Which in many ways our minds work the same way…Just like the wind that blows leaves around in the fall , we too have a wind that blows around in our mind, thought is mind in motion just like electricity is a form of motion and its effects will depend upon the mechanism to which it is attached, In other words when electricity is attached to a light build and we turn on the light switch we get light ! Our minds work the same way, however the effect depends on the “mechanism to which it is attached.” What is that mechanism ? We all have an understanding how the mechanism of the automobile we all drive, but most of us are content to remain in absolute ignorance of  the greatest piece of mechanism which has come into existence…the brain of man. The effects we all have in our lives are produced in the world within. Where your focus goes energy flows…There is a great mental world which we all live...