Graceful Space

11/10/2025

There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
--Wendell Berry

03/10/2023

Environmental justice meets social justice at Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend.

Dr. Vivek Shandas, who delivers the keynote address at this year’s Making Brooklyn Bloom, speaks with BBG about street trees, environmental justice, and how we can move toward a more equitable urban ecology.

03/13/2022

Function at the expense of form:
It's postwar modern, fifty years old but still new to me: I can't get used to the flatness, the blandness. It looks like a packing crate.
–Margaret Atwood, _The Blind Assassin_
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12/03/2021

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11/02/2020

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10/08/2020

are not grouped like that by pure accident, though probably had much to do with it. Convenience often dictates very sound in

05/19/2020

Everywhere one feels so conscious of the it is like a presence, a caress in the air. Probably the beautiful, undisturbed helps.

05/19/2020

It was pleasant being by myself in the house--one gets the feel of a much better alone.

05/18/2020

The inside of the through which we had made our way had been as inconsistent as the outside. The was all on different levels, and we had walked over red bricks, wide, uneven oak boards, modern , and even a cold corridor, where sightless busts occupied in the walls.
--Monica Dickens, One Pair of Feet in

05/18/2020

The original smallish red brick house with irregular chimneys and casement windows sunk into thick walls, was practically eclipsed by the additions that had been stuck on to it. Shrouded in creeper, it huddled between the wing of a french chateau on one side and on the other a Victorian excrescence, hung with balconies and sunblinds and sprouting a domed conservatory of coloured glass.
--Monica Dickens, One Pair of Feet in

02/16/2020

It was dismal to start anywhere in but to come in rain was pleasant...to step from cold and wet into and
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02/16/2020

She loved the shining surfaces...the in all over the house...the glitter of and in the ...
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