A concept

The idea behind The Desert Living House is that it is built with everything integrated into it such that it will Live. It will be a living, breathing, growing structure, not separate from the earth. So often structures make to misguided choice to view the earth and its forces as something to be defeated. the earth must be interfaced with. this concept can be taken and applied to any location on the planet given sustainable local resources. the ideals of this house are not just aimed at human centered livability, but also at teaching a healthy lifestyle, serving as a model of idealism and realism in built form, acting as a habitat to benefit the environment, sequestering carbon and tying up reclaimable materials. it will serve as a foundation for life rather than a capsule of death. Houses are designed to remove their inhabitants from outside interaction of any sort. The Desert Living House will welcome interaction, maximize on outdoor living, and Attract the unconvinced.

confidence and experience

Confidence and experience, intertwined as they are, are not dependent on each other. My discovery of this came in an explanation of my own production. There seem to be two avenues of pursuit when confidence is in question. One may be taught it, or one may learn it. It’s important to note that each of these does not in the slightest involve pseudo confidence or faking ones own confidence. Confidence does not require love so that it may materialize, though most people we view as confident surely do feel they have some element of love in their lives. Confidence is taught, whether intentionally or not, by those who guard, protect and raise us to our state of apparent ‘adulthood’. The father that plays with his son and tells him he’s good at things regardless of the actuality of the matter builds a person capable of being confident to pursue and succeed. Without this encouragement and power building, a child may flounder, ever sure enough of himself to make real progress. Further, he may do great things and never allow himself the satisfaction his experience should allot him. Here identity crises enter in and we’re caught with a perfectly legitimate person who fails to see his inherent worth. Society may try to build him up in appreciation for his contribution to its body, but this effort may be a loss altogether. Confidence is learned. Through experience one will, through a lifetime of accomplishments, build self-esteem and Know what he IS and is capable of. Some know their value, not because they were taught, but because they know much and have beneficial aspects of self to contribute and enrich their environment. Perhaps then this feeling of poor confidence is just ridiculous, because one expects too much at such a young age of themselves. The true trouble comes only for the aged, the individual who contributed little and never acted, while letting fear rule the day. This tragedy is relatively negligible only if we All recognize that we’re worth our everyday contributions to society ourselves and the world; and when we fail to put out all reasonable effort, we have failed the most important person. One cannot lie forever to themselves. Fear not what you can’t attain immediately, and prize the greatness you may spread. Let this light keep your heart from corrosion so you may be confident in this life.

Conversation

Every now and then, we’re reminded why we care, why we try by having the opportunity to explain our existence. This experience was long overdue, and as such, greatly appreciated. Each of us, I believe, has a certain potential obviously for ‘feeling’ but also articulating those feelings. In this instance, I was offered an opportunity to remind myself why I care still and why I’m still trying to change the way my environment is. Our conversation began over a misunderstanding of the proper definition of what a friend is. His claim-that a friend is someone one shares commonality or convenience with-I had to dispute. I believe that ‘friend’ has the potential—as do all words—for whatever meaning we give them. So If we choose to intensify the meaning of a word-say friend- we’re free to allow it to mean the most intimate bond between people short of entering physicality. Words can be special. One may learn to listen to the sounds another makes and watch body language to gauge true feel and meaning, but when you develop a language out of common words just by being selective, considerate, and conservative with their use, one stands to gain the intensified *implied* meaning of the word. To rarify is to rekindle value. If I choose to reserve ‘friend’ for the fewest people I am truly, deeply close with, it has all the more significance. If we were all to adopt conservation in our use of words like we talk about with our resources, it would have the same effect of creating a more harmonious existence between everything we interact with. Appreciation, elementally, is paramount.

In this conversation, I was reminded through my desire to “spread the cause”, that by exuding passion for life, one may seduce others to respect life as much and perhaps even feel compelled to the point of changing. We spoke of a common concept- of bringing people together to Be together- and this became the standard in our conversation for how people should interact. We thought, if only people could just Be, they things would come together. The issues that plague all of us could enter a new stage-one where the problem is obsolete, all anyone responds to is the solution. Jiddu krishnamurti once wrote of this concept. The problem he said with trying to solve something, is that everyone is so focused on the Problem and Finding a solution, they never just focus on the solution that exists.

I have now a project building an ‘eco dorm’ to bring people together. The pull here is for people to come together in unified support of a good idea. Beyond that, each may teach and learn from the other how ever much each is seeking. This is the right of all of us. When we realize that the world, to find peace with, is immediately in front of us-our own little universe- we can begin on the path to health.