Original message. Christopher Alexander Hi there– As a builder, but also one who absolutely loves all of Christopher Alexander’s thinking, I can’t help but defend the builder side of the equation. The fact of the matter is, we must pay our workers. Even the hours where they weren’t fully productive, their mistakes, their sick days, their health insurance. All of this requires money. And money has limits, as you and your wife know, or else you wouldn’t have employed the help of a developer, or the plans that were sketched far away, used a hundred times over, and had no “I” in them. The struggle for us as builders, for you, for all living systems, is how to adapt to the limitations that surround us and still *make* something that brings wholeness, that brings life. In fact, somehow the theory needs to expand that the quality of sadness/the void, even the boundaries themselves, are thanks to acts of destruction, non-creation, obliteration. I must say, that after 10 years of blood,...