Thinking With My Hands

The earth is really just another rock in the wall, suspended like the other planets, within a system held together by gravity. It’s a ...

Ultimately, a  stone stays ‘balanced’ because it makes contact, not with one, but at least three unique points with the stone belo...

I'd always puzzled in the past    about having to do a presentation (showing what can be done with stone) if ever the projecto...

That morning a lady came to the front with a different kind of stone. Not one from the island. It was one she wore as a pendant. A cl...

Back in 2017 having been invited to Ireland to speak at the annual  Féile-na-gCloch   dry stone  festival,  on the island of Inisoirr, th...

Metamorphic Metaphor for the Metaphysical

How’s this for a dry stone concept to be built by a river or a lake for people to lean on and kids to climb over and have their ‘catch ...

It is not just a plutonic intrusion. We have a deeper connection to stone  flowing through our bodies. We feel it in our vei...

One of the arches in the Temple of Imperfections, that we're building, is similar to the two arches in the Pyro-mid we built nearl...

Here’s another way of celebrating brokenness, in what otherwise would be a missed opportunity to see the greater beauty and new aesthe...

The Japanese art of 'golden joinery' - kintsugi is a kind of celebration of nature's flaws. It is an important part of the ja...

This January our intention was to create a pleasing 6 sided dry stone hexagonal structure that incorporated 6 different types of stone a...

The hills on the drive south from San Francisco look like the folds of great blankets covering improbable combinations of giant ...

And so here we all are on the other side. We are in a different time, period. A 'Neo' Year has now begun – 2020, and with it...

The film The Graduate was released over fifty years ago. It was a good film. There's a poignant moment in it that I'll never f...

Merry Christmas  Happy New Year  and  Happy Holidays  from me  to all of  y O u! 

There’s a   L  O  N  G    N  I  G  H  T  ... ahead of us. See you on the other side.

All properties of a complex system that are not relations between it and something else derive from the properties of its constituents...

It is very unlikely that anything can be truely random. The concept of random is inconsistent with a closed system of conscious real...

The word Wall is many things. Not just the end result. And 'to wall' is like making music. It is the whole event, not just ...