Three books read so far this year. I’ll start number four tonight (The Stranger by Albert Camus) with the goal of completing it before month’s end. ?
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…”
— Walt Whitman, preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
Nicholas Bate. Good thoughts on Mondays. Always great thoughts daily.
Does it pay to own a small bookstore? Seth Godin gives the answer. Something I’ve been thinking about.
“From the north end of the Herman Miller conference table, he presided over dinner, which was the daily review of our lives.” — Kurt Harden tells the story of the lessons learned at The Table
Birthday dinner at “the fanciest place in Saint Paul” for Miss Beatrix.
Do you want a tour-de-force stand up and clap at the end longread thinkpiece on doing nothing. Yes. Yes you do.
CJ Chilvers shares some ideas about what to do with the unexpected moments of whitespace in your day.
Shhhh… Everyone, be quiet. Science says silence literally rewires your brain to be more intelligent. (H/T to The Sovereign Professional for this.)
Can you imagine a world where we all followed Barlow’s rules? I can.