When I was a kid, I remember my dad telling me how he was always amazed and slightly jealous of the men in Lufkin who were able to have their shoes shined in the train station or barber shop. This would have been East Texas in the depression of the 1930’s, and times would have been tough. Growing up in a loving home, but not a wealthy one, he always shined his own shoes with the discarded polish cans he found at the neighborhood barber shop. He taught me how he could extend

Things change. It’s inevitable. Time imperceptibly moves around us like a ghost, always present but rarely seen. It wears on everything around us, including us, and it will always win. Because of this, we should design our sites with materials and workmanship that will sustain itself against the elements…against the wind, the rain, the sun, the cold, and the most damaging element of all – our fellow man. Our projects will fail with time. The pyramids, however magical and