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Booknotes in early May
You know how you have that friend you used to talk to on the phone all the time, every day practically, so that even though you lived hundreds of miles apart, you were totally up on all the daily...
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“…wake to the wonder of this grass”
Ours is in bloom this very day, as it happens “Our Christmas cactus has predictably bloomed each December for three decades and some years when it has been colder for longer, as is the case this year,...
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Notebookery
On my mind constantly of late: notebooks, sketchbooks, art journals, and combinations thereof. Conversations are swirling in several of my circles— • at Sketchbook Skool there is always lots of chatter...
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“…I found the July days fly fast, and it was not until I felt myself confronted with too great pride and pleasure in the display, one night, of two dollars and twenty-seven cents which I had taken in...
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“…strange archaic sympathies with the world”
The black curagh working slowly through this world of grey, and the soft hissing of the rain gave me one of the moods in which we realise with immense distress the short moment we have left us to...
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“Tell me some more about your valley,” she said to Moomintroll. “It’s the most wonderful valley in the world,” he answered. “There are blue-trees with pears growing on them, and chatterfinches sing...
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Booknotes: The War of Art
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield A reread to help me jump into a new year and a new project. Steven Pressfield’s take on Resistance is some of the most useful teaching about writing I’ve ever...
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