A kept book
Commonplace
Borrowed lines, fragments, and remembered passages I keep close.
A commonplace book is an old habit: a notebook where one copies down the lines, poems, and passages that earn a second reading. Mine has lived in margins, in apps, on scraps of paper. This is its public shelf.
Poems, quotes, and fragments I've collected over the years: words that resonated best, parked here so you can enjoy them too.
Featured
Empathy cannot be automated
But warmth. Empathy. The ability to sit with someone in their confusion and make them feel understood.
read entry →The whole notebook
Every fragment, tagged and indexed.
- Definition of Success
- Diary (What) v/s Journal (Why)
- Finish something
- Role of love and esteem in childhood
- What you pay attention to — expands
- A Little Fellow Follows Me
- Locate the Other Person's Mindset
- If
- It Gets Easier
- Holding Space
- Make the Ordinary Come Alive
- Principles of Adult Behavior
- Role of Women in Boys' Lives
- Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
- This Is to Be My Symphony