All writing

A visual notebook

Morning light and early birds

Morning light and early birds

Small acts, sustained

The habit of underlining

On self-hosting as a form of attention

A Short Defense of Marginalia

The margin is not empty space around the text. It is where reading turns into thinking, in real time, without waiting for the sentence to finish.

On the Practice of Noticing

There is a kind of attention that doesn't grasp at things but lets them arrive. I've been trying to cultivate it for the better part of a year, with mixed results.

On Rereading

The first time through a book, you're mostly finding out what happens. The second time, you're finding out what it's actually about.