![]() You are finding safety in the darkest places, and beauty in the loneliest places, and love in the places you thought had been forsaken by love. You have gone insane to be normal, you have cracked to be whole, you have traded the old security for a life of adventure, and given up the sad old dogmas for the thrill of not knowing. You have days where you feel tiny, yes, but you have days where you can hold the whole damn Universe in the palm of your hand. The voices of fear and shame and doubt may still be with you, but you are bigger than them now. You are a warrior of realness now, tired of the bullshit and the false promises, weeping and raging and laughing your way into the terrible, wonderful wholeness that you are.Īll your old dreams have crumbled, but you have not. (These are only dreams for frightened children.) It’s not always love and light and joy and positivity and pure undisturbed Awareness. It’s not always the spirituality you were sold. You are returning to nature, to the Garden, to the wild, where you were conceived. Fear-based conditioning is melting away, and you are meeting life in the raw. You are thawing, undoing billions of years of karma. Sometimes you will curse the day you started out on this journey. Sometimes you will feel like you’ve made no progress at all. ![]() Sometimes you will think you’ve reached the end of the path, and then you will find yourself back at the damn beginning. ![]() Some days the ground will open up and swallow you and spit you back out. You will rage to the sky, to your parents, to all the teachers who failed you, to the lies you were fed, to the ones who never showed up when you needed them the most. You will cry a billion tears for the lost and abandoned children, within and without. You will step into pockets of grief you never knew were there. You will laugh at the simplicity of things, some days, of course!īut you will also be asked to confront your deepest fears, face the darkness and the night within, go to the places where the unloved creatures dwell. Oh yes, you will touch the bliss and joy of existence, for sure! (Did I say, this is not a path for the faint of heart?) You will be asked to begin again, and again, and again. Your most brilliant insights, your astonishing expertise, your life’s work, it can all crumble to the ground. What you thought you knew will occasionally dissolve into nothingness. Detectors should be AC/DC and interconnected so that all alarms sound at once.Īny questions about these technical notes may be directed to the Building Department by phone at 24, or in person at 400 Sixth Street during normal business hours.Awakening is not a path for the faint of heart. Smoke detectors are required in every sleeping area and on each level of all buildings including residential homes. Detached accessory buildings 400-square-feet or less are only required to have an 18 inches rat wall. A ladder effect or steps will be required for an egress if the well is more than 44 inches deep.įor most buildings, the bottom of trench footings must be on undisturbed soil a minimum of 42 inches below finished grade. ![]() The window must be able to open without tools, special knowledge, or special effort.Įgress windows located below grade must have a window well nine-square-feet in area minimum, 36 inches wide minimum, and must allow the window to open fully. The window must be within 44 inches of the finished floor. This requirement applies to all newly constructed and remodeled sleeping rooms.Įgress windows must have a minimum clear opening area of 5.7-square-feet, a minimum clear opening width of 20 inches, and a minimum clear opening height of 24 inches. Egress windows are also required for any habitable space below grade (finished basement areas).
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