a note№ 032
Cut the list to three items this morning and finished all three by noon, which has never once happened with a list of nine. The nine were never a plan. They were a way of feeling busy about deciding.
#attention
a seed№ 020
An inbox is a portrait of what other people want. A notebook is a portrait of what you want. Keep the second one longer.
a quotation№ 014
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
a quotation№ 013
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
a note№ 007
Borrowed a book and found a stranger’s pencil in the margins, arguing with chapter four. I finished the chapter twice: once for the author, once for whoever had been so patiently annoyed by him.
a note№ 005
Sat with one lamp on and the window uncovered, which makes the room feel smaller and the evening feel larger. Painters knew this. A single source of light does not merely illuminate a scene; it decides what the scene is about.