In my Commonplace...

5/21/2015

"The further I get into this writing life, the more help I find I need. There are days when I am trapped in what Virginia Woolf called cotton wool: dazed, unfocused states in which the hours collapse , one flattening into the next. Days in which I am not entirely alive. Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand." Dani Shapiro

3 Comments

amy in peru link

5/28/2015 09:12:07 am

i hate those "...days in which i am not entirely alive."
they seem to wander about in herds. rarely found individually - more often i find they come by the dozen.

amy in peru link

5/28/2015 09:20:08 am

the punctuation of my comment annoys me.

Laurie

5/31/2015 05:38:29 am

Hello!

You must be a poet. Or be awash in mothering hormones....ha! or both.

"Ideas
won't keep; something must be done about them."
- Alfred Whitehead

A Charlotte Mason education leads to all kinds of ideas! Join me in keeping one or several of the notebooks she prescribed and discover the Science of Relations and the Art of Mindfulness.

Laurie

"Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it."
--Charlotte Mason

Virtual Life?

A wee explanation: this website was created as a way to amplify the daily surprise of seeing glory in one small life. The notebook entries represented here are all selected from things actually lived and noted on paper in an effort to live the full life British educator Charlotte Mason so ably championed.

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In My Notebook...