A seed has potential to take root or to fly. Once rooted it unfolds generating life, repeating patterns, expanding and flourishing, bearing fruit and a harvest.

As it flies, it sways, leaps, seeks, sinks, attaches, unfurls and becomes or succumbs. This dual nature of architecture, the Practical: rooted, planned, generative, upward and forward functional path, and the Art: the alternate role of space, emptiness, intangibles, dreams, light poetry, lifting on a breeze…is the realm of these letters.

An idea can take root if it has good soil. A rich foundation. Growth, harvest, the next seed. But the flying is the leap of faith, the sway, the reaching toward the light, the waiting.

I enter into this collection of letters as a practitioner, one who ponders my vocation as it relates to my maker. I pray that these shared thoughts would be received with grace and be useful in some way to those choosing to read them.

My goal is to reflect on the practice of architecture as it relates to the Garden, the Spirit & the Art of the Everyday.