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Where I Used to Work
Construction going up When I first moved to Dallas, in 1981, my first job was downtown. I remember the quiet thrill of riding the bus into the forest of skyscrapers every morning – it was an exciting...
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Again in the Meadows
Texas Sculpture Garden, Frisco, Texas James Surls American (Colorado/Texas) Again in the Meadows 2002 “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” ― William Shakespeare Photographs...
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Heavy Lifting
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. —-Douglas Horton I rode the DART train into Downtown Dallas for the last Dallas Writing Marathon and as the short line of yellow...
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Construction Project at the Bayou Boogaloo
While in New Orleans for Lee’s Tulane Graduation I rode my bicycle to Bayou St. John for the Bayou Boogaloo. There is always a festival going on in The Big Easy and they are always fun. This was a...
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To Enlist the Confidences Of Madmen
“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to...
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Two Vast And Trunkless Legs Of Stone
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch...
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Something Technically Unique
“There was a wish to get something exceptional, … I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.” —-Santiago Calatrava The arches of a second Calatrava designed bridge rise in the river...
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Unseen Crooks
“You clearly don’t know who you’re talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who...
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They Swore By Concrete
“They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.” ― Gunter Grass The Horseshoe, Trinity River Bottoms, Dallas, Texas “When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.” ― J.G....
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I Move, Therefore I Am
“Judging from the spiderwebs clinging to it, the emergency stairway was hardly ever used. To each web clung a small black spider, patiently waiting for its small prey to come along. Not that the...
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Rumour Is A Pipe
“Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.”...
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Thrived Like an Advanced Species of Machine
“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived...
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What We Build Could Be Anything
“It’s creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it’s going to be, I don’t know. Even...
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Wait For His Neighbours To Make A Mistake
“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived...
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Pointed Blasphemously At Heaven
“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat;...
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The Ways Of Beauty Are As A Honeycomb
“Our house was made of stone, stucco, and clapboard; the newer wings, designed by a big-city architect, had a good deal of glass, and looked out into the Valley, where on good days we could see for...
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Holding Malice Like A Puppy
“It was wrong to do this,” said the angel. “You should live like a flower, Holding malice like a puppy, Waging war like a lambkin.” “Not so,” quoth the man Who had no fear of spirits; “It is only wrong...
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Cities, Like Dreams, Are Made of Desires and Fears
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ―...
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Ramp
“He takes a kitchen chair and sits in the yard and all the ducks come around. He holds up the cheese curls in one hand and caramel popcorn in the other and his audience looks up and he tells them a...
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