by Tim Girvin | Aug 10, 2009 | Diary
The recollection of a face, reflections on corvid recognition. I’d offer this: these days, there’s more interest in the corvid population than ever before. Why? Because we’ve all learned about the degree of intelligence that is connected with the...
by Tim Girvin | Jul 12, 2009 | Diary
I was taking a rest, after a long week — a contemplation: and things came to mind that recalled the journeys that have been, and what new emergences shall be. And those dreams were deepening, in the meaning — the meditation on making — and the...
by Tim Girvin | Jun 2, 2009 | Diary
Why does Tim Girvin love crows and ravens? Some people have equated the raven as being something inextricably linked to me — my personal brand. That is, when people see something on the raven, or the crow, they presume that I know about it, or should. And they...
by Tim Girvin | May 1, 2009 | Diary
Librado Romero/The New York Times I love trees. That’s obvious, given at that I have written dozens of blogs that have something to do with the spirit of trees. And I’ve written about Roxy Paine, too. But, being a designer, my love of trees is really...
by Tim Girvin | Apr 11, 2009 | Diary
Getting to the soul of things. What is a thing? I’ve wondered about that. A thing. thing O.E. þing “meeting, assembly,” later “entity, being, matter” (subject of deliberation in an assembly), also “act, deed, event, material...
by Tim Girvin | Mar 22, 2009 | Diary
I have longed for the desert, since I was a child. I’d asked my Mother, after seeing LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, to learn the theme on the piano, so she could play it over and over. And when we sat together, at the piano, the cascades of memory in sound, the long...
