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Using Twenty Questions as a Starting Point
Maybe a better way of organizing a life is using something like Franklin’s admirable virtues and contrasting one’s life events against it. In that vein, Sarah Blakewell’s How to Live, or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty … Continue reading →
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Tagged life lessons, lists, memoirs, Montaigne, My Life Around Art, perceptions, Sarah Bakewell
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List Season: a catalog poem
It is the season for great lists of gifts, and guests, must not forgets, of menus, meals and seating charts, of who sits where and who gets what; of when to this and when to that, of great logistic strategies … Continue reading →
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Tagged catalog, Christmas, daily poems, holidays, lists, poetic forms, winter
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