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For a Commonplace Book 53 comments

Ben Friedlander wrote 1 week ago: Neglected record of a mind neglected, Unto what “lets and stops” art thou subjected! The … more →

Tags: Longfellow, Forgotten Poems, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inert Ideas

Robert wrote 4 weeks ago: In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one … more →

Tags: Alfred North Whitehead, Creativity, Education

For a Commonplace Book 3

Ben Friedlander wrote 1 month ago: In June With a Difference. — Hamlet. Who saw the June come ? Wel-a-day! My neighbor’s bushes … more →

Tags: Forgotten Poems, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Reese, In June, poems of death

how to rush to judgment1 comment

Laura wrote 1 month ago: There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, wh … more →

Effects of Time

Robert wrote 1 month ago: Life under such conditions was like a dreadful dream — an incoherent, continually shifting vis … more →

Tags: Baldness, Mór Jókai

spiritual rhetoric, verbing, commonplacing, blogging is languishing1 comment

Laura wrote 2 months ago: I gotta figure out a way to re-boot my blogging.  Sara picked the right verb for it: my blog is lang … more →

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Ben Friedlander wrote 2 months ago: Walt Whitman, 1989 Tuesday, December  25, 1888. 8 P.M. … As we sat there talking Ed [1] bro … more →

Tags: whitman, Walt Whitman, Horace Traubel, Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Stroke, Illness, Christmas

I am that rabbit in the moon.

salmonheadsoup wrote 2 months ago: I look at place and how it affects our sense of self. Place being somewhere we travel to as well as … more →

Tags: Carlo Van de Roer, annalise rees

Everything at Once

Robert wrote 2 months ago: Badly neglected gardens are difficult to handle because so much needs attention all at once. Emerge … more →

Tags: Gardens, Stephen Anderton

Conservation

Robert wrote 2 months ago: Take an interest in conservation all over the United States. You may think that soil erosion, flood … more →

Tags: Nature, Conservation

English Ivy

Robert wrote 2 months ago: English ivy (Hedera helix) loves an old garden. It would like a whole garden to itself. You will f … more →

Tags: Gardens, English Ivy, Stephen Anderton

Lessons of Experience

Robert wrote 2 months ago: What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the ri … more →

Tags: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, experience?

Value and Dreams

Robert wrote 2 months ago: I didn’t buy the horse for business or to make a profit. You do not sell dreams. – Zoltán Mikó … more →

Tags: Value, horses, overdose, Zoltan Mikoczy

Divinity

Robert wrote 3 months ago: As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals an … more →

Tags: Religion, Benjamin Franklin, Jesus, Divinity

Blue Eyes

Robert wrote 3 months ago: Zugegeben: ich bin Insasse einer Heil- und Pflegeanstalt, mein Pfleger beobachtet mich, läßt mich ka … more →

Tags: Günter Grass

Sandbanks

Robert wrote 3 months ago: Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial … more →

Tags: Finances, Nature, Henry David Thoreau

Castles in the air

Robert wrote 3 months ago: … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, … more →

Tags: Complexity, Henry David Thoreau

Spring

Robert wrote 4 months ago: Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain har … more →

Tags: Nature, spring, Robert Frost

Simplicity

Robert wrote 4 months ago: La simplicité n’a pas besoin d’être simple, mais du complexe resserré et synthétisé. … more →

Tags: pataphysique, Complexity, Alfred Jarry


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