Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Lessons from the Popsicle Sticks



Sometimes when the lesson is staring me right at the face unblinking, calling my attention, I still miss it.  That’s what happened with the popsicle sticks I was crafting into a house, garage and flying vehicle for my four-year old son, Joshua who was excited by the powerful glue gun.  The temporality of it all should have warned me and kept me from losing my temper whenever my design is not followed.  Everything is temporary and we’re just passing through so any attachment to anything be it a physical object or an idea is never ever healthy.


Popsicle sticks like toy blocks and sand castles are often subject to instant destruction from the hands that fashion them. Why should architectural ideas be any different?  Nothing is ever written in stone and even water erodes eons of hardness.  So should we accept temporality with grace.