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Saturday
January 19, 2019

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    Long ago, returning from a fishing trip,
 Bruce Gray sing-songed as we passed the
big sawmill on I-5, "Turning round things
into square things..." That always stuck with
me, an apt description of the tension between
rectilinear architectural tendencies and more
organic forms in both building and thought.
I first heard the term "direct action" at a WTO
 protest planning meeting at which I happened
   to be painted silver and a poet named Lance
       predicted the shape of the future. It all
            reminds me of Buckminster Fuller.

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           Today at Strawbale Studio,
    we started digging into round pole
   construction methods. Think Lincoln
 Logs. Or maybe carrots, if that helps to
 visualize components. After almost 20
 years of on-the-job practice, I'm fairly
  adept at slapping flat things together.
    While the basic framing principles
    remain the same, the details of how
        it all fits together are different.
            ...Feels like I've come full
                               circle.