Arcosanti

Peter Merholz writes about his trip to Arcosanti. This is a planned village/city/town designed by Paolo Soleri. We visited the place in 1978 on a Costello family trip through the Southwest and it seemed pretty cool to me at eleven. Some twenty plus years later I looked into revisiting it and...was disappointed. What was cool to me as a kid seemed to be totally impractical as an adult. The economics of the location alone make no sense, and to the adult in me the idea seems like idealistic architecture run amok.

Evening KMC Update

I spent about an hour inside the isolation room tonight. My mom was more alert than she has been and seemed to recognize me a couple of times. Otherwise no real change in her status.

KMC Update

Not much change today. There was a bit of a setback in the morning when her O₂ level dropped into the 20s for awhile (normal is 85+, good is 90+). I spent about 90 minutes with her midday, and another hour this evening.

One positive thing is that she was negative for influenza, so we don't need to wear gloves and facemasks when we visit her.

Otherwise, slow progress is all we're looking for or expecting.