by Tim Girvin | May 17, 2011 | Diary
THE BRIGHT IDEA IS IT THAT THE GREAT IDEA IS A LIGHTNING STRIKE OR A BUILDING STORM? I was contemplating — the sequence of brilliant ideas — how they emerge, the sparking of them. Is it the storm that slowing builds an electrical charge, or could it be the...
by Tim Girvin | May 16, 2011 | Diary
ARE YOU? I WONDER if I am. Making my way? Do I truly make, my way? As I’m heading into the mists of the mountains, a great passage is emerging. That might be the actual mountain pass — it’s coming; but then it might be the passing from the wetter...
by Tim Girvin | May 15, 2011 | Diary
SIGNALING THE POINT OF ENTRY In Sweden, there is a distinct red that is used in farmhouse buildings. It took a taxi driver, coming in from the country, driving me to Stockholm, to figure it out. What is that red? In fact, most of the farms use the same color, a nearly...
by Tim Girvin | May 13, 2011 | Diary
HOW FLOW WORKS Earlier, I corresponded with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the scholar and author of “Flow.” His studies of the concept of flow and the optimal experience are legendarily groundbreaking. I found the idea of the perfected state, the flow state, to...
by Tim Girvin | May 12, 2011 | Diary
THE OLD WAY OF LOOKING Some journeys take you to vistas that bring you to another visioning of the idea of place — how to site, for sight. The fortress, the seabound light turret, the castle might, the ocean wall, the ringed labyrinth, the mountain village, the...
