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You could probably read/skim this book at five different times in your life and get five different personal life lessons from it. My big take-away this time around is that doodling is not bad. Doodling is a way to think and learn:
I want to teach my students some doodling tools so that we can doodlearn (yes, I just made that word up!) together.
But what this book gave me for right now (for today and this week and the rest of the summer) was a reminder that I don't have to wait until I'm an amazing artist to have fun with doodling. I learned to doodle new, more expressive stick figures, and use eye positions, noses, mouths and eyebrows to create a variety of more emotive faces:
And I returned to my TED challenge and illustrated notetaking by opening the TED app on my phone, scanning the featured talks, finding one with NOTICE in the title (my One Little Word for 2015) and received this excellent message from the universe:
In a recent Brain Pickings article about Mark Strand, this quote stood up in front of me, shot its sleeves, straightened its tie, and announced, "I'm here. I understand that your OLW for 2015 is notice? Well, I've arrived to wallop your brain with a new take on attentiveness."
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are – as far as we know – the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious. We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness. We might have come along so that the universe could look at itself. I don’t know that, but we’re made of the same stuff that stars are made of, or that floats around in space. But we’re combined in such a way that we can describe what it’s like to be alive, to be witnesses. Most of our experience is that of being a witness. We see and hear and smell other things. I think being alive is responding. --Mark Strand, quoted in CREATIVITY: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION (line breaks are mine)
Wow. Just...wow, right?
When you click over to the article, there is a for-real Mark Strand poem at the end, and as you read or scroll through to get to it, don't you admire how Maria Popova uses art from children's books to illustrate her post?
Liz has the Poetry Friday roundup today at Elizabeth Steinglass. I hope to be able to make the rounds this week. Life has expanded my one square inch to give me a smidge more breathing room than last week!
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I knew what I was doing at Paw-Paw: I was beginning the lifelong task of tuning my own gauges. I was there to brace myself for leaving. I was having my childhood. But I was haunting it, as well, practically reading it, and preventing it. How much noticing could I permit myself without driving myself round the bend? Too much noticing and I was too self-conscious to live; I trapped and paralyzed myself, and dragged my friends down with me, so we couldn’t meet each other’s eyes, my own loud awareness damning us both. Too little noticing, though—I would risk much to avoid this—and I would miss the whole show. I would wake on my deathbed and say, What was that?
—Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
4 Comments on Annie Dillard on noticing, last added: 5/23/2010
I just picked this book up on Tuesday. (I was at a conference at a local church, and they had a table in a hallway of used books for sale, on the honor system.)
Ah, I love Annie Dillard. Read what she has to say about writing http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-drop.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&oref=login
The best on writing ever. Especially this sentence “You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.”
I just picked this book up on Tuesday. (I was at a conference at a local church, and they had a table in a hallway of used books for sale, on the honor system.)
2 do bad for good is all intellIgent
And heaven scent hell bent
Against stature and nature
Is victims' angrst picture!
Help yelp at Hand 2 ship place in time and space place race of disgrace for a spell of knell of DADDYS tell swell! Love love Andew.
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Beth
Ah, I love Annie Dillard. Read what she has to say about writing http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-drop.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&oref=login
The best on writing ever. Especially this sentence “You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.”
I live by this sentence.....
Grete