20120404 - 1 - house - patio - strength from weakness - concrete decay = better-lit step - GEDC0241
A common theme in the way we live is "strength in weakness": Finding a flaw and realizing that it grants you extra points in unexpected way.
For example, our foundation is sagging, so our kitchen is slanted. The one time our laundry flooded, instead of a basement full of water, it all ran out the back door due to the floor slant. A few towels later and we had no homeowners insurance claim like when the same thing happened at my parents' house.
ANYWAY...
The step in our patio is decaying, and the decay left a nice space for a solar light. This is a perilous, dark step at night, as it falls in the shadows cast by the sheds, well, and house, making it impossible to navigate without holding onto the guard rail - which is itself barely held in by the decaying concrete of our mega-patio. So while the linear/conformist/normal way of thinking about something like this would be, "Hole. Bad. Fill it up so everything is flush and normalized", ***I*** would prefer having a hole that holds a light so I don't fall, than having a perfect step that is pleasing to the eye. Strength in weakness. QED.
concrete step, patio, solar light.
strength in weakness.
side yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
April 4, 2012.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
20120404 - 1 - house - patio - strength from weakness - concrete decay = better-lit step - GEDC0241
A common theme in the way we live is "strength in weakness": Finding a flaw and realizing that it grants you extra points in unexpected way.
For example, our foundation is sagging, so our kitchen is slanted. The one time our laundry flooded, instead of a basement full of water, it all ran out the back door due to the floor slant. A few towels later and we had no homeowners insurance claim like when the same thing happened at my parents' house.
ANYWAY...
The step in our patio is decaying, and the decay left a nice space for a solar light. This is a perilous, dark step at night, as it falls in the shadows cast by the sheds, well, and house, making it impossible to navigate without holding onto the guard rail - which is itself barely held in by the decaying concrete of our mega-patio. So while the linear/conformist/normal way of thinking about something like this would be, "Hole. Bad. Fill it up so everything is flush and normalized", ***I*** would prefer having a hole that holds a light so I don't fall, than having a perfect step that is pleasing to the eye. Strength in weakness. QED.
concrete step, patio, solar light.
strength in weakness.
side yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
April 4, 2012.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com