Town Plaza Marsh and Forest (Remembering the Birds Amidst Fast Growing Urban Sprawl)
Author’s Note: In the fast-changing world, one in many places having urban sprawl uncreative and uniform, taking over green spaces and wildlife habitats, it is sometimes healthy and soulful to pause and reflect upon something like birds. They are in their flying moments anyhow, emancipated from all this trouble. I saw the other day a […]
Bridges
Author’s Note for Readers: The landscape photos of bridges aren’t necessarily the exact bridges written about. They are rather an impressionistic portrayal of bridges I have seen in general, through photos I have taken on my travels and liked. Perhaps the first bridge I remember was the one in the ravine where the temperature of […]
“The Factory in a Garden”: George Cadbury and the Garden Ethos in Today’s Urban Crisis
Introduction: An Industrialist Ahead of His Time In 1893, George Cadbury relocated his chocolate factory from central Birmingham to a semi-rural site that would become Bournville. His vision was radical for its time: a “factory in a garden” — where industrial production coexisted with green space, decent housing, recreation grounds and social amenities. Cadbury’s experiment […]
Reclaiming Utopian Urbanism: Lessons from Owen, Cadbury and Garnier for Contemporary Planning
Introduction: When Planning Had Moral Courage Urban planning today is deeply technical. We debate density thresholds, infrastructure deficits and mobility efficiency. Yet nineteenth- and early twentieth-century urban reformers framed the city not merely as a logistical challenge, but as a moral project. The experiments of Robert Owen, George Cadbury and Tony Garnier were not naïve […]
The Mexican Coastline
I bought a rosary. But I should have bought two then. It held up so well and was made of beautiful and colourful stones. I looked around and the sun was another sun, a poet’s sun, for it was more mystical and magical. Shallow was the water in that area, clean, and warm, and you […]
The Drama of the Snow and Sebastian Sumac in that Season
It kept descending in the night, and for the most part, seemed like a wild secret or strange dream. It was pretty, certainly, like silent music orchestras floating around the industrial grade electric lights of town roads curt and organized or the playfully amidst Christmas bulbs residential and red, blue, yellow, green, and even purple. […]
Travel Log Sojourn Scenes, A Poet’s Diary
The Spirit Message I heard somewhere the clear book title ‘Silas Marner’ and looked it up. It was a George Eliot book and reading the summary I knew I wanted to read her book someday. It looked like Silas had a difficult go of it but was deepened and maybe even somehow redeemed by his […]
The Northern Town and its Water
In the small town there was an old library, a few churches, and even a place where they sold worms for fishing and nearby, in the summers anyhow, a corn stand. I only realized far after that I never brought my bike there, such as in stories and films. If I could go back, I […]
Marginal Spaces and Broken Laces or Explorations of the Liminal
Shelter and Surrounding Area There were several different spaces and many seemed to bypass them though some could not. The shelter where I worked and was well received for instance that the police and even other emergency services shunned and judged. It was in the outside of a town up a hill, in fact many […]
