
#fallcardswap went out yesterday. Wish them luck! 🤞🏻🤞🏻
#fallcardswap went out yesterday. Wish them luck! 🤞🏻🤞🏻
“By gradually reconstructing the mind and training it to dwell on that which you have and want, rather than what you lack, you can begin to affect changes for the better.
Don‘t be concerned if these changes do not become evident immediately. You have planted the seeds, and that is all that is necessary. If you plant seeds in your garden, you don‘t dig them up a few days later to see if they are germinating.”
Really fun microhistory about something I am obsessed about: notebooks. It is very well written, with each chapter covering interesting historical vignettes about notebooks from mainly Renaissance to the present. I feel it is not thorough, but it is illuminating and well written, and you can enjoy it even if you are not a notebook nerd.
My cat also enjoyed it, as you can see.She gives it a definite Paws up!
I only read a couple of his books, enjoyed them !😢 https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/03/30/irish-crime-writer-ken-bruen-dies-...
Saw this on Facebook to make mini books. The crafters precut foam tape is at DollarTree, according to the post.
I‘ve been wanting to make mini books and then place them in a clear tree ornament.
In addition to the physical history, Roland also discusses how notebooks were used throughout history - in accounting, art, natural history, writing, etc. and various ways notebooks were perceived. I.e., in the 1200s when clergy refused to use anything other than parchment being suspicious of paper's novelty and its infidel and recycled origins: “one opponent fulminated against the idea that the word of God could be written on menses-stained rag.“