file under: generosity of spirit
Posted on Jun 18th, 2008
by 
tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
There is something so touching and encouraging about people who bother to do the things that aren't necessary, the things that are just purely delightful and quirky and entirely extra credit. Or maybe those are the things that are really the most necessary of all. I know just reading this story feeds something in me that's absolutely as essential as the parts that get fed with rice and beans -- nothing against rice and beans, mind you, but wow, this architect makes me proud to be human and, well, odd. I am so, so glad that there are odd people doing things no one ever would expect just for the sheer delight of it all. I want to send Eric Clough a love note - embedded in a puzzle, of course, and maybe hidden inside a wall...
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architecture
September 2008 
Toooooooooooo cool! i love it
Just magical. Thanks for this.
I love it.
When my parents moved out of the house I grew up in, I wrote a letter to future inhabitants about things that had happened while we lived there – snow forts built and books read and family pets and love and loss – and put it in a bottle and threw the bottle into a hole in the wall in the basement. It's unlikey to be found in my lifetime but I like to imagine some little girl reading it and dreaming about past lives in the house she's growing up in.
that is SO cool. when I was remodeling a room in a house several years ago we found some bullets in the wall, but no notes.