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10/2/2020

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"In fact, attention is of value only insofar as it is paid in the proper discharge of an obligation. To pay attention is to come into the presence of a subject. In one of its root sense, it is to 'stretch toward' a subject, in a kind of aspiration.  We speak of 'paying attention' because of a correct perception that attention is owed - that without our attention and attending, our subjects, including ourselves, are endangered."  Wendell Berry
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Anne E. White link
10/3/2020 08:53:42 am

I like this very much, and I'm sure that Charlotte Mason would have totally agreed.

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Anne E. White
10/3/2020 08:56:35 am

Have you read this?

Finding the World's Fullness: On Poetry, Metaphor, and Mystery
By Robert Cording

It sounds like something you'd like. He uses that same quote from Berry.

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Laurie Bestvater
10/3/2020 11:54:33 am

Anne, I will read "Finding the World's Fullness" forthwith! I don't believe I do know Cording but is sounds like what I find in Mason. That Berry essay is worthwhile in its entirety, imho.

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Anne E. White
10/3/2020 12:04:09 pm

Which essay? My Googling isn't pinning it down.

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Laurie Bestvater
10/3/2020 12:06:45 pm

"Writer and Region" (It's linked to his name at the bottom of the quote.)

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Anne E. White
10/3/2020 12:19:36 pm

Thanks! I missed that.

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