From "148 Charles Street," Willa Cather's recollection of Mrs. James Fields in Not Under Forty, recommended to me by Brain Pickings [https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/25/willa-cather-relationships/]— > When one was staying at that house the past lay in wait for one in all…
> Some of the mail was important and personal, not just bills. It was exciting to get a letter: the paper and handwriting told you something, as well as the words. * Rebecca Solnit "We're Breaking Up" in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness referred via Brain Pickings…
> Piazza Dante, Napoli, 2014#dante750 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dante750?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/KfgnfH37QL [http://t.co/KfgnfH37QL] — Beba Kron (@BebaKron) May 22, 2015 [https://twitter.com/BebaKron/status/601855183157600256] The New Yorker alerted me that Dante is just about 750 years old and that the anniversary…
> ...though we sang in our (social media) chains like the sea. https://t.co/RHQ8XDyebH — Tim Carman (@timcarman) April 24, 2015 [https://twitter.com/timcarman/status/591640108064899072] Count me emphatically in the 6.7% who have read poetry in the last 12 months. And it's not just…
> Emily Dickinson's handwritten coconut cake recipe, 19th century. 📷Garrett Ziegler pic.twitter.com/YTe9EvUe0s [http://t.co/YTe9EvUe0s] — ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) April 6, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Libroantiguo/status/585019116110671873] I've visited The Emily Dickinson Archive [http://www.edickinson.org] a few times. The handwriting is…
Whitman makes his case boldly and enthusiastically in the first three lines of Song of Myself > I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. As familiar as these lines are, it took a…
> 'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.' Marcus Tullius Cicero — The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) September 22, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife/status/514021500450787328] Seeing this lovely thought reminds me that Seneca's On the Shortness of Life is near…
I've posted quite a bit about walking lately, and this essay by Ferris Jabr at The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think] got my attention not just for explaining the benefits of walking so clearly but also for its appreciation of Mrs. Dalloway, which I&…