“Everyone gets the experience, but not everyone gets the lesson” – T.S. Eliot
Everything is lessons is a collection of design wisdom that could apply to life or our profession. I came across Eliot’s quote some time last year in the midst of struggling with work and life and where I was supposed to be. I felt like I was accumulating loads of new experiences – successes, setbacks – and but missing the lesson, missing the deeper wisdom I could apply to my life.
This blog will become an inventory of collected wisdom that I have encountered. I am a mid career architect who is constantly seeking and yearning for more. I am let down and disappointed and encouraged and let down again. Through all of those experiences – there are lessons – what to do and what not to do.
I hope you will find each post to be honest, vulnerable, and compelling. Encouraging, hopeful, and real.
Raymond Carver’s makes a provocative claim in his dynamic book Fires –
“If you want to accomplish anything of consequence with two children, it better be short and of consequence.”
And so it is…
I will post short essays all with 3-word titles that detail bit of design or life wisdom I am learning or have learned. Some of these lessons are funny, some are painful, some are encouraging, and some are simply something to learn from. I am writing this mostly for my own therapy, but maybe you will enjoy reading too.
Once I get going, I will send out some notifications and give you yet another thing to read. In the meantime, therapy is in session.
rk