http://www.karinoyo.com deconstruction. education. unstill life with hounds. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/175 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/175#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:00:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2007/04/fables-of-the-reconstruction-err-renovation/
I may not be able to do math in my head, but I still enjoy doing it — there’s something satisfying about writing out the calculations, however inconsequential, and seeing numbers add up just so. It feels like organizing the world…assuming I’m doing it right, that is. Right now, I’m at about 3/4ths of teh [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/175/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/184 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/184#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:40:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2007/03/house-progress-pt-i/
I have a sense of style. I have an eye for design. I don’t have an eye for knowing instinctively what design here will work with that design there. I tend to just throw it all together and hope it’s not too jumbled… and then I find out it is, but it feels like it [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/184/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/180 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/180#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:32:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2007/03/downloading-fool/
Must be spring: I’ve been working on the house like a madman, and in between downloading like crazy, getting ideas from various sites and checking on how-tos from carpenters about some of my ideas. In the meantime, I’ve realized a few more truths of the universe. First. That design show — While You Were Out, [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/180/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/100 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/100#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:20:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/?p=100
If you ask me (and you’re reading, so that counts as asking), it’s important to be aware of the importance of home as sacred space, as a place that’s both protective and inviolate and removed from what’s-out-there. And, as long as we feel like intruders or permanent guests or not-really-here in undecorated/uncommanded homes/spaces, we never [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/100/feed 2 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/99 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/99#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:19:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/?p=99
After the last week or so of nonstop go-go-go (with the final note of it all being the news a friend is shipping off to Iraq for a month, sigh), I realized the best sanity saver is to avoid deep thoughts and chase the shiny, which for me will always be How To Occupy Space. [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/99/feed 0