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Commonplace Book

A virtual scrapbook of wonder-filled thoughts, big ideas, and beautiful miscellany.

Kurt Vonnegut on staying human, every day

Good things happen when you refuse to optimize the basic experience of being human.

'Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front'

"So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute."

'Precious Five'

W.H. Auden's recipe for happiness

The Sound of Easter

Hope, yes, and victory too. But also a longing – the ever-present not yet – that pierces the soul.

'What the Bird Said Early in the Year'

A poem by C.S. Lewis to break the spell

‘Our little systems have their day’

Selections from Tennyson from the poet for bruised believers.

'Often the Dying Ask for a Map'

Poem by B.H. Fairchild, published in Image Journal

'Let's not be sentimental about beauty.'

James K.A. Smith on Beauty, Gregory of Nyssa, and a quietly stunning poem.

'After reading our daughter's poem'

'the tiniest bird fell from above them, where it belonged, to land below them, where it did not.'