Good friends of mine are building a home not far from here, and when I mean building they are doing nearly all the actual work.  It has been fun to see their place rise from the foundation and take shape as a house .. hopefully later this year it will be their home.  They have asked me to help with some of the finish work and it will be a great summer challenge to see their Victorian Italianate home become reality.  Here is a quote by Herman Aihara that I have always enjoyed;

‘If you want to build a building,  first there is spirit – you have a design.  Then you get the material to build the house.  Unless you have a spirit,  you won’t build this house.  No shape.  You have to design the shape,  make a plan.  That’s spirit first.  Always there is spirit.  Then the material comes.  There is no seperation.  To me,  this is the first thing to realize: … matter and spirit are not seperate.’