A commonplace is a notebook for keeping favorite quotes, inspiring ideas, or thoughtful notes. It’s a highly individual practice that has been used by “keepers” of all walks of life for nearly as long as the means to conveniently and cheaply read and write have been available. It’s
The year is winding down to a close. How are you doing? How is the state of your house? Illness strikes, an all-consuming project is due, guests come and go, daily life moves ever forward without stopping to clean up after itself. We all have periods where things slide and
I’ve read Joseph Pieper’s little book Leisure: The Basis of Culture a few times, and every time I find it worth the slog in the beginning to make it to the chapter 4. Chapter 4 confirmed to me that convivial was a word to latch onto and make
First, some back story. I hate to admit it, but I worked for about a year at a Bible Bookstore in high school. So while driving the other day, my mind made a random weird connection that made me laugh – it does that when it gets two minutes of silence