January 16, 2020 - 125 - "Mexican Casa Renovation 5: Dust to Dust"

So you take a house whose basic components are concrete
and stone.

And you decide to redo a lot of the
electrical,..which requires chiseling out concrete,
creating masses and masses of dust.

Like...all over the house.  And you think you're done
but realize you need just one more plug...one more switch...

Plus you rearrange the plumbing all over the place....
which requires chiseling out tile and concrete.  

And the workers have to mix up more and more concrete every day to
rebuild or fill in all the changes. Which stirs up a whole lot more dust.

Then you get a lot of ideas for how things 

could be changed for the better: like by ripping out stuff 

like 1970's-era wet bars...or, ya know the roof.

And no matter
 how hard you try to block off areas.

You're still gonna end up with A LOT of dust.

Dust, dust, and more dust. 

Even your beloved flamingo sculpture, Freddie,
will be covered in dust.

(Not to mention being tragically separated from
his legs.)

Everything will be covered in dust.

Everything

Plus there will be piles of debris...  

Lots and lots of debris....and things don't really look like they're getting better.
In fact; it all looks like it's getting much much worse.

     But in the midst of big projects you have to believe that one day...it will get better.  In this case, that one day this box of dust and debris will become a home again.

     ...all evidence to the contrary.

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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

-Pablo Picasso

(We're gonna need a lot of art.)

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"Are we all is dust in the wind."

-Kerry Livgren

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   "Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties?                  Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope;                    perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."

-Vaclav Havel

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