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Simply Imperfect.

Wabi-Sabi Weekend: Against the Machine

On Wabi-Sabi Weekends, I post excerpts from my book, Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House.

“With the proper deployment of budget and computer time, we will cure cancer, save ourselves from nuclear extinction, grow food for everybody, detoxify the results of industrial greed gone berserk — realize all the wistful pipe dreams of our days.” – Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, 1984 

In the early 1800s, led by a fictional leader known as King Ludd, angry craftsmen attacked English … Continue reading

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