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ESCALANTE ARCHITECTS
Thursday, April 24, 2008
It was bound to happen
Well, yes, I have been out of circulation for the last 36 hours. I suffered a fall from the Likkens trail on my daily run at sunset. I was pretty bruised after missing a switchback while fiddling with my new Ipod and going at the speed of light. These are the times when I can reflect on all that is going on at the office, teaching and life in general, and if I would not have been so distracted, I could have had managed the sudden turn. Not bad, only three falls in 14 years, but on this ocassion, I really bit the dust, in more ways than one. However, due to medical science and a great dentist, Dr. Dennis Norheim, I am bruised and wearing an aircast, but as good as new... with a few more scars. I was forced to take a break from teaching and work. And I am so grateful to my boss and colleague, Judith Sheine for being so caring and steadfast. Also, this forced rest has given me an opportunity to act, instead of react, which is the way I lead my busy life. Tomorrow, I will go back to normal, limping a little bit, and perhaps on crutches, but I realized in this down time, that for every gaping hole that I suffered in my vessel, a new window of opportunity opened.
I am grateful to my friends and colleagues, and yes, that means, Axel, Peter, Susana, Cliff, Erica, Ronald and Lourdes, who have kept my spirits up in moments where I confront how fragile our humanity is. Tomorrow is a new day, I will either go teach or take another raincheck and go to the ranch and do some gardening with Maria and be back by Saturday, because a writer is arriving in Palm Springs to write an article about our work in innovative homes.
In the meantime, our clients have been very patient, rescheduling our meetings due to this misshap or delaying our deadlines by a couple of days.
We are so blessed to live the dream of being uncompromising architects who will do our best to be inspired by every project we take. In fact, I had a strange dream about Khan last night which in a whisper said to me, "your team is doing just fine... hang in there". I woke up with a crooked and sore smile.
The fall was a huge brick God threw at me, but I got the message... no more bricks needed.
posted by escalante-architects # 12:43 PM 
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
It was bound to happen
Well, yes, I have been out of circulation for the last 36 hours. I suffered a fall from the Likkens trail on my daily run at sunset. I was pretty bruised after missing a switchback while fiddling with my new Ipod and going at the speed of light. These are the times when I can reflect on all that is going on at the office, teaching and life in general, and if I would not have been so distracted, I could have had managed the sudden turn. Not bad, only three falls in 14 years, but on this ocassion, I really bit the dust, in more ways than one. However, due to medical science and a great dentist, Dr. Dennis Norheim, I am bruised and wearing an aircast, but as good as new... with a few more scars. I was forced to take a break from teaching and work. And I am so grateful to my boss and colleague, Judith Sheine for being so caring and steadfast. Also, this forced rest has given me an opportunity to act, instead of react, which is the way I lead my busy life. Tomorrow, I will go back to normal, limping a little bit, and perhaps on crutches, but I realized in this down time, that for every gaping hole that I suffered in my vessel, a new window of opportunity opened.
I am grateful to my friends and colleagues, and yes, that means, Axel, Peter, Susana, Cliff, Erica, Ronald and Lourdes, who have kept my spirits up in moments where I confront how fragile our humanity is. Tomorrow is a new day, I will either go teach or take another raincheck and go to the ranch and do some gardening with Maria and be back by Saturday, because a writer is arriving in Palm Springs to write an article about our work in innovative homes.
In the meantime, our clients have been very patient, rescheduling our meetings due to this misshap or delaying our deadlines by a couple of days.
We are so blessed to live the dream of being uncompromising architects who will do our best to be inspired by every project we take. In fact, I had a strange dream about Khan last night which in a whisper said to me, "your team is doing just fine... hang in there". I woke up with a crooked and sore smile.
The fall was a huge brick God threw at me, but I got the message... no more bricks needed.
posted by escalante-architects # 12:43 PM
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