Sand Castles

In delicate balance between research and development… lives architecture.

His work—half on paper, half in code. To design a production-grade system, create the types and interfaces, and write the logic. And, bless his heart—to skip the tests.

“Does it break?—oh, but she is a beauty.”

Cervantes and Don Quixote. Is this a commentary on the human condition?

Perhaps, he says—“why are you laughing?”

The satirist, inverse of the perfectionist—who does everything deliberately, subtly wrong. In our vanity, do we assume we are not he.

The antidote?—is the child on the beach.

Does he play with sand castles? Oh, noble spirit…

For, perhaps, we play with the same. Our castles last longer—but, they too may wash…

The architect, who lives for the present—but designs for the future. “May this tomorrow carry grace! Or, let the sea claim my work…”