the keeping life

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"Mason had shown me that the notebooks can be forms of vitality, literally the shape and outline, the liturgy of the attentive life. They nurture the science of relations and the art of mindfulness. They teach us to see the very brief beauty of now, to know the landscape of here, to be present in all our pleasures and pains. Through them, we, haltingly, dwell in a world of ideas and connections with an ever-higher opinion of God and his works and as truer students of Divinity."
The Living Page

To Keep (verb)

: to continue having or holding (something)

: to not return, lose, sell, give away, or throw away (something)

: to continue in a specified state, condition, or position

: to cause (someone or something) to continue in a specified state, condition, or position.

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Bouguereau 'The Story Book'(detail) 1877

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mochithings

Henri Matisse, Click image to see more

Adolf Fenyes, Click image to see more

Simon Glucklich, Click image to see more.

Duncan Grant Interior with artist´s daughter - 1935

Izsák Perlmutter Art

"The Corner of a Room" by James Dickson Innes, 1908

"Silicon Valley Needs to Get Schooled" LinkedIN

Object Lessons: The New York TImes

taxonomy of good writing

"Forging the Future with the Tip of the Pen."

Woman Reading (The Artist's Wife) by Aaron Shikler

Ring, Laurits Andersen (1854-1933) - 1898 At Breakfast with the Newspaper (National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden)

Girl reading by Tatiana Nilovna Yablonskaya, Soviet artist, 1917-2005

In a Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks are as Relevant as Ever

Ariel Zambelich/NPR

"Ink-Written by Hand"

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books collected by The Lilly Library

Arthur Rackham

Carl Vilhelm Holsoe (Danish artist, 1863-1935)

from Amber...

"The three younger boys needed new copy books since we aren't using a handwriting curriculum this year. One way to encourage being a keeper is to use quality materials. I didn't want to use a composition book because we use those all the time and they have too many pages. I think it's important that your first copy book be small so you can enjoy filling it up. Their handwriting improves so much in the first year that it's also encouraging to begin afresh before too long. I had such a hard time trying to find a boyish solution that I finally gave up and made my own. I bought a Moleskine 3pack, printed out some antique illustrations and broke out the rubber cement. They can't wait till Monday...."