by Tim Girvin | Aug 8, 2008 | Diary
There are 8 stories. 8 ideas. And 8 ways of thinking about things. 8|8|8 1. On this door. There was a door, that was a door to somewhere else. In merely seeing the door, it was a vision to another place — I knew that it went somewhere. I tried to get in. Any...
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 | Aug 16, 2009 | Diary
Notes on installations, surprise and the awakening of beauty, discovered. I’ve written about the idea of poetry on the wind, words that gesture to an impression, that tied to a string, written on handmade paper or the stock of recycled paper bags, flutter and...
by GirvinIT | Apr 6, 2021
Yes. You keepworking. Many of my friends and colleagues retire. And, in that movement, I contemplate what that means for me, if anything. My Dad retired at 65—and, given his highly action-oriented lifestyle, along with my Mother, he unfurled his career to engage in...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 24, 2010 | Diary
Dissolution, beautiful degradation; the dissolving — the shifting of solution from one stage to another, spattered with color. Looking at this wall, once cleaned masonry, now speckled with moss, the tinting of coursing water, the colors shift in the aging...
