Carsten Sprotte
Let us leap
New Year's wishes from Cantobria To see what is possible in a new year, even when the worst seems so near, appears as a great leap. Look...
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Carsten Sprotte
Dec 6, 20223 min read
Entering into my promised land
The few of you who may know one of the secrets of my past will understand the significance of the expression “entering into the promised...
Carsten Sprotte
Sep 15, 20221 min read
The Cantobria Songbird
Like a natural blessing for a better ending, there is a special energy in every new beginning. Every morning is also a new beginning. The...
Carsten Sprotte
Sep 13, 20222 min read
The Cantobria Way
A Mini Manifesto. In this world so rife with conflict and existential threats, have you ever wondered what you could do that would...
Carsten Sprotte
Aug 14, 20222 min read
The Discovery of Cantobria
At the foot of the shining citadel, where two river ravines converge upon a heart-shaped, light-filled valley, there lies a land for...
Carsten Sprotte
Aug 7, 20222 min read
Light House Orientations
The Light House is not a single model or blueprint; it is a concept that incorporates many possible models and variations. While...
Carsten Sprotte
Jan 13, 20212 min read
The Key of A
Houses are not built according to musical keys, as far as I know. But this is my musical moment, so I will make it so. Behold A Key to...
Carsten Sprotte
Jan 11, 20213 min read
2021 Best Wishes from the Light House
Dear Friends, Dear Readers, I have taken three deep breaths before wishing you anything for 2021. This happy new year just isn’t as...
Carsten Sprotte
Jan 6, 20215 min read
The making of the Light House (Act I)
Before there came to be what you are soon to see, named the Light House, there was a certain longing....call it an envie. After some...
Carsten Sprotte
Dec 19, 20202 min read
Tree House
As a child, I aspired to make my home in the boughs of mighty trees. Something of this remained in me, and indeed as a species we remain...
Carsten Sprotte
Dec 17, 20203 min read
In the name of place
Our land is not a grid, the way many an American city would have it be. Places are distinct, special to some, and sacred to others. Even...
Carsten Sprotte
Nov 29, 20201 min read
Imagine...
What if a house breathed in the light Of the sun at day and the moon at night? What if you could contemplate the stars, as you slip...
Carsten Sprotte
Nov 27, 20203 min read
A House to Herald Change
This is a house that wants to change you. This is a house that wants to change the world, for it is by changing yourself that the world...
Carsten Sprotte
Nov 25, 20202 min read
A House Less Travelled By
On that clear-sky autumn day as you hiked over hills, two roads diverged in a yellow wood. You peered down both until their bends, both...
Carsten Sprotte
Nov 17, 20204 min read
Earth Erotica
One autumn day, in your weariness you lie down beneath a giant gingko to watch its golden leaves dance in the wind. As you gaze upwards,...
Carsten Sprotte
Nov 11, 20201 min read
Ode to a House that is Not
Written as a single word, we can define a lighthouse as a tower containing a beacon of light to guide ships. Written as two words, our...
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