Word: mudding
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...world knew back then, it was that painting was yesterday's news. Real artists did installations, or sawed houses in half or got behind the controls of a bulldozer and piled up earthworks - anything other than pick up a hairy brush and use it to drag that ancient mud called pigment across a piece of cloth...
...just finished reading "The Boys Are All Right" when, walking to the shops, I watched three little boys aged about 4 or 5 playing in a front yard. They were all covered in mud from head to foot as they excitedly built a road, carefully lined with rocks, for their toy trucks to cross the lawn and run down the slope. Although there was a perfectly good toy front-end loader in the mud pit, one boy had figured out that the dog's water dish carried much more mud and was easier to fill, so he had clearly been...
...took the moment to absorb my surroundings: The white-painted mud walls and floors, low ceilings, and dirt forced me to reconsider my mental image of a sumptuously decorated and immaculate king’s castle. The building’s only regal element, to my American mind, was the unavoidable feeling of centuries of use, of stately...
...When ushered in to meet the old king of Mustang in his castle of 108 mud rooms, I asked him in my best Nepali how he thought the road would change the area. He replied it would be good economically, but detrimental culturally and environmentally; and his eyes grew melancholy...
Sarah McCall, a Peace Corps veteran who since March has led six Globe Aware trips in Costa Rica and Peru, recalls how her groups constructed mud-and-brick stoves for 24 Peruvian families in San Pedro de Casta to save fuel and keep harmful smoke out of adobe homes. The project was the brainchild of municipal officials. "We never go in and say that we had this idea, and we want to do this," McCall explains. Instead, she and other leaders check in with the locals to see what the community needs, then dispatch volunteers to do the legwork. Voluntourism...