Dear Crafty, An Exterior Architecture is the pattern of all forms of our functioning:doing, thinking, feeling; manifested personally and in community.It is pretty much what-we-are. This is necessary. This is how we act in life, and how the world sees us. A conventional “Work” formulation is along the lines:In life, externally play a role.Internally, not…

Making a new world. What is a new world? Doing things, taking positive initiatives and actions. That’s for doers. Another way is by changing an attitude: we accept a person we have consistently rejected / not accepted. In this change of attitude, the world has changed. How we think of the world: if we change…

At the beginning of lunch, the Kitchen Co-ordinator asked for the nasty, horrid fluorescent lights in the dining room to be switched on. I asked that they be immediately switched off. They were not necessary: daylight with blue sky and sunshine provided more than a sufficiency of light; and they cast a nasty, horrid shine…

This has just flown off to an industry person with an interest in a period of my professional life. As usually the case, despair was never far away, and my personal life in disarray. The industry person expressed apologies for asking questions about this; without being aware of the distress involved… One of the features…

Silence is a friend to Guitar Craft, and its visits a precious gift to the courses. This is where the distance between the real world and our everyday world suddenly closes. The real world is as available to us as we are ourselves available; that is, to the extent that we can bear to be…

At this particular moment in time, let’s go to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Assumption Of Virtue: Assume a virtue if you have it not. So, how do we do this, how do we do anything? If we are able, in some way, to present to ourselves the virtue which we wish to represent, embody, or transmit, or…