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Maybe I should change the title today to “Your Notebook’s Future.” Interested in what to write, when, how, and more? Suggestions and answers abound in pretty much anything by Julia Cameron. Her classic is The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path…
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Your Notebook’s History, part 4
How fancy is your notebook? how fancy does it need to be? For context, consider these examples — Boccaccio recorded his reading in his zibaldoni; Milton confided notes and quotations in five languages to his “common-place” book; Charles Darwin used…
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Your Notebook’s History, part 3
Can’t stop. This* is that good — A notebook thus becomes an extension of the self. Perhaps it is your deep personal self and you are writing down your emotions and experiences in a diary (or “egodocument,” as present-day academics…
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Your Notebook’s History, part 2
Hadn’t planned on extending this…but… A fresh notebook exudes strange power. If you have ever opened one, perhaps while sitting at a sidewalk cafe, you will know the rising sense of possibility that comes with what Mr. Allen calls “the…
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Your Notebook’s History
Yup! And that’s all I’m gonna say about this — https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-notebook-review-the-power-of-the-blank-page-c7f58113?st=3rxae7eij64ilp9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink — well, except to reiterate: Yup!
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Must be nice to have all week off, Pastor!
Tara Beth Leach wrote this, and yeah — I’m often asked, what does a pastor do besides preach on a Sunday? Even my own children are often baffled that I go to work in an office during the week. When…
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Prayer, part 2
“And when you pray,” Christ Jesus says in Matthew 6:5. Not “if.” “When.” I find that significant.
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Prayer
So said the late, great drummer for the band Rush — “You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender.” ― Neil Peart — What say you?
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For those of us who still need to learn things: Do (part 5 of 5)
From an ad — DO — So what? So this: Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they…
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