A friend had sent me a link to a Amichai poem (read previously when I was devouring Amichai and meditating on Israel-Palestine) via email earlier, and that link lead me to this post on the passing of Laurie Baker early last week.

Laurie Baker was a sustainable architecture guru, and more importantly, a lovely person who stood and lived by an elegant variation of Gandhian philosophy. Also it so eerily happens that it was only just a while ago I had thought of the beauty of Laurie's buildings (I was looking up one of my posts here that mentions him )!! If I ever build a house for myself - none of the suburban mass-produced ugliness for me - I will certainly borrow one lovely feature of Baker's work: stained glass effects created from broken bottle ends; perhaps a Laurie's wall or ceiling.

Farewell Laurie - you will live on via your buildings, and ideas that they will continue to radiate on how to live a good life.