How delighted I am to find this! Alexander says to choose the patterns most important to one’s project. The impossibility of doing everything ideally all the time is a pattern.

I love it! Thank you very much for sharing this. Your knowledge came to Brazil

A light bulb for opportunity. This place has been made available and convenient, but it has left room for you, for your ideas, for your book and your tea mug.

I think it has something to do with the value of the restraining force: the constraints of the site, the budget, humility, the value of simplicity, the desire to honor others as well as oneself, the desire to leave part of the world in zone 5. Without the negative feedback loop, one could get the gilded toilet and too many rooms, even too many garden rooms.

Thank you for this beautiful and practical presentation on this great thinker. I especially appreciated the section on a quality without a name, something that I've long felt in such places as well, and similarly connected them to a simultaneous sense of home, comfort, freedom and eternity. You might find this series of videos interesting in relation; the notion of Civium has been an inspiring one for me, as has Jordan Hall, who came up with the concept and continues to do great work: kzfaq.info/sun/PLeRBa-Ner4BsFuhndU4mMCDAqv97661GT&si=Pa0IpR2ZmsBJumcX