Collections

The passages fall, over time, into a handful of themes. The shelves are not tidy and they overlap — a line about work is often a line about time — but a book has to be put down somewhere.

• Reading On why we read, how badly, and what a second reading is for. 14 passages
• Solitude & quiet Being alone on purpose, and the difference between that and being lonely. 11 passages
• Attention What we choose to look at, and what looking does to us. 12 passages
• Work & craft Doing a thing well for its own sake; the long apprenticeship. 10 passages
• Time How little of it there is, and how strangely we spend it. 13 passages

Some day I will make an index of the authors as well. Not today.