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A Hut of One’s Own

“Hut”--from Okakura’s The Book of Tea –“an ephermeral structure built to house a poetic impulse…devoid of ornamentation except what may be place in it to satisfy some aesthetic need of the moment…purposely leaving some thing unfinished for the play of the imagination to complete."

-Where is your hut located? Be specific.
-To what is it oriented?
-Briefly describe the exterior and interior of the hut:
-What is it made of?
-Describe a ritual you could enact that would be appropriate in your hut and express things fundamental to you.
-Create a tribute to someone important to you.
-Choose a particular music that would be played in your hut. Under what circumstances?
-What smell would be prominent in your hut?
-What living person would you like to bring to your hut?
-If possible to raise the dead, which famous dead person you would like to bring to your hut?
-List three personally important objects you would display inside:
-What would someone close to you discover about you by visiting your hut?
-What about you would most interest after a visit to your hut?
-What one food would you serve there?
-What one memory would you commemorate? How?
-What one photograph of yourself would you include?
-What one photograph of another?
-What one thing you’ve made?

1. Amidst an alpine forest at the base of the Rocky Mountians
2. It is oriented to the rising of the sun
3. It has a stone base with a pine roof. The inside is covered with pine needles
4. It is made of pine and store
5. Plant a new tree to give back what I have taken
6. A carving depciting a flower, an onion, and a knife for my mother who loved gardening and cooking
7. Classical. Before or during storms and then compeser would depend on the individual storm
8. Either the smell of pine from the forest or of mushrooms cooking
9. My father
10. Theodore Roosevelt, He is my linages name sake ( I am the 4th) and he loved a balance of man and nature
11. Fire, a knife, and water. What is needed for survival
12. That I care about my environment and love to cook
13. My analysis of seemingly simple things. Like a simple landscape or a thunderstorm
14. Mushrooms sauteed in white wine and rosemary
15. Camping with my family, building a camp site
16. Me wtih my camera at indy 500
17. My mom with my dog in her garden
18. A bow