Metamorphic
I have begun a process of radical change. Not so visible from the outside but internally things are changing fast. Metamorphic changes. I am jettisoning obligations to help sustain an architectural practice; I am leaving behind the need to spend every waking moment...
My Departure from MSR Design
On Sunday, August 7, 2016 the office that I founded in September of 1981 with Garth Rockcastle and Tom Meyer gave me a wonderful party. I am reluctant to call it a retirement party since I will, in a very small way, still be connected to the office through the Board...
The unbearable stench of Trump’s B.S.
I only take exception to the denigration of the term artist by associating it with Mr Trump
Melania Trump's I Have A Dream Speech
Melania Trump’s “I Have a Dream Speech” (with apologies by the author of this political satire, Jeffrey A Scherer, to the ghost of Martin Luther King. I thank him in abstentia for the use of his beautiful dream speech. Here is the original text:...
Burning down the house with ghosts
Today on Facebook there were two very interesting posts next to each other in my morning feed. The first post was by Mr Mike Forcia, chairperson at the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis who stated "If trump wins it'll be Armageddon. And I think it's best for...
Can't shake a raised hand
How much more heartache can we take Before we wake to hear That our hearts are numb To the beats of life Of love Of community But awake to the beats of hate And racism And fear. How much more can we take? It is really difficult to shake a person's hand when it is...
Fever Pitch
The current state of political discourse is rising to a fever pitch. This is somewhat inevitable—given the stakes. I get the reasons. I understand the passions and political process. We are being exposed to extreme behaviors that are creating isolation, fear and...
Billy Allen Scherer
Billy Allen Scherer: May 25, 1927 - June 28, 2003 Photo of him when he was about 16 and with his new car. The signature was from a letter he sent to my mom, Cora Lee Scherer, during the war. He died of ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which...
Simon Scherer 04FEB2002-05MAY2016
Today we said goodbye to our beloved Simon, a soft-coated Wheaten terrier. He was fourteen years old and suffered from arthritis, dementia and had a serious heart condition. He was with us through our transition to Merida and made life so much richer in every way. He...
Why ghosts are real
Each person has their own relationship to their past.While I live, obviously, in the moment, I am always referencing past experiences, people and places. This to-and-fro referential whiplash is not some complicated psychological trauma. It is simply what it is. I...
The Search for Emptiness
We can only be within ourselves when we know the place others posses within us. We can never be free of the burdens imposed, permanently or temporarily, by the boundaries of power or relationships. Each day I try to unravel the interwoven influences that place, people...
The Final Chapter
On Monday, April 4, 2016 Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd will be issuing a press release formally announcing my retirement from full-time service to the company that I co-founded with Tom Meyer, FAIA and Garth Rockcastle, FAIA. My last day for full-time service...