by John Pitney | Mar 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
They will beat their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore. Everyone will sit under their own vine and beneath their own fig tree, with none to terrify them. ...
by John Pitney | Feb 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m just gonna put it right out there: WE SUCK AT FLOORS!!!!!! Since the beginning of our Net Zero house design, the plan was to build on a concrete slab. It’s a relatively inexpensive floor, easy to insulate and seal beneath. It enhances the Net Zero thermal design,...
by John Pitney | Jan 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Vincent Van Gogh said: “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” Both certainly apply here: There are lots of things to love about Oregon. One of them is METRO PAINT!!!! It is recycled and remanufactured from unused paint Oregon citizens turn in from homes...
by John Pitney | Jan 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple...
by John Pitney | Jan 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Happy Epiphany. The coincidence of Advent and the 21st meeting of the U.N. Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP21) was a serendipity of the most awesome order. As humanity becomes exponentially more violent and bent on fowling the only nest we have, I become...
by John Pitney | Jan 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Hope is not the optimism that things will turn out right. Hope is the soul’s deep orientation to the right, no matter how things turn out.” -Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic In his essay, “A...
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