But I need more than two.Reasons for Keeping:
36. for refreshment 37. to change my life 38. neuroscience confirms 39. to be a chooser 40. to break the "rehearsal loop" 41. to limit distraction 42. to distill ideas
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Reasons for Keeping:
29. for the satisfaction 30. to "itemize happiness" 31. the Church Year 32. for consistency 33. to lose myself 34. to quiet the inner critic 35. "we pine" Reasons for Keeping:
22. to count the riches of each day 23. the call of paper and pen 24. to remember 25. to hope 26. to live more solitude 27. to connect more with others 28. it is necessary to me Reasons for Keeping:
15. as a sign and a witness - if only to myself 16. to model self-education 17. to capture what I see 18. to understand what I love 19. to care more 20. to become more content 21. to see personality unfold Reasons for Keeping:
8. as a record 9. to meditate 10. to slow down 11. to grow wonder 12. as play 13. as prayer 14. to understand my classroom posture Reasons for Keeping:
1. to look up - expect Mystery 2. to know the power of a small act sown daily 3. to change my thoughts 4. to grow attention 5. to understand my desires 6. to stay on my own page 7. as an act of resistance re virtual life "Oh that today (we) would hearken to His voice." Ps. 95:7 "Well, I don’t think of myself as a mystic. I think of myself as a listener. You never know whether providential events are only coincidences or not, but as I grow older, more and more little things happen that are either of no consequence at all or else they’re just rare glimpses into mystery itself. I even hesitate to mention them because they’re so small and laughable in some ways. " ~ Frederick Buechner Ash Wednesday/St. Valentine's Day, begins again One Hundred Days of Keeping. Are you ready for "glimpses into mystery itself?" "In Maurice Sendak's Pierre, a child responds to all parental inquiries by saying, 'I don't care.' When he encounters a lion who offers to eat him, and responds with his habitual 'I don't care,' the lion pounces and devours him. The book is the perfect exposition of acedia; happily, when the lion is shaken upside down, Pierre emerges, laughing because he is not dead, and because life is worth living." Kathleen Norris
“The question is not, -- how much does the youth know when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?” Charlotte Mason And that's a wrap on this year's One Hundred Days, but I hope it's just the beginning of our keeping and caring. "...whose chief business in life is the navigation of an unknown craft." ~ Charlotte Mason
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