1. Go to the art store and pick out a single color pencil. A highlighter is much too wet, a pencil is way too ugly, a pen is far too serious. A pen is like a knife and a pencil is like an unkept promise and a highlighter is like a bucket of water. A color pencil is just right.
"Use the color pencil to highlight sentences and words you love. Now, you are no longer just reading, but also collecting. This active element helps me persist."
This. I love coming back to my notes and read all the collected sentences from time to time.
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Your voice can be heard among the starry illuminations, howling at the moon.
I stumbled across this post via the explore page. Thank you for such a luscious meditation and invitation, which I’m receiving as an exploration of reading as spiritual practice.
I went hunting for a coloured pencil in my drawers instead of going to buy a new one, and discovered two Winnie the Pooh pencils in blue and red that I don’t remember buying. Seemed very you!
Kiss your lover goodbye, pat the dog, exit the door, and set out toward your future.
Kiss your lover goodbye, pat the dog, exit the door, and set out toward your future.
Kiss your lover goodbye, pat the dog, exit the door, and set out toward your future.
this is a tender kiss on the head
i'm in love with you
I wish that I had found this sooner. This just transformed my day. Thank you.
Made me cry in the best way. Thank you
"Use the color pencil to highlight sentences and words you love. Now, you are no longer just reading, but also collecting. This active element helps me persist."
This. I love coming back to my notes and read all the collected sentences from time to time.
Fine writer and reader of Substack—we are starting a movement to get a poetry section added to the platform. Can I ask, are you with us?
https://substack.com/profile/10309929-david/note/c-15579327
If so, please consider clicking the above link and liking the Notes post—leave a comment or even share within your own community. Poetry lives on in the minds of hearts of writers, it breathes on the page.
Your voice can be heard among the starry illuminations, howling at the moon.
Thank you for your time and support.
Love and appreciation,
David
Brilliant. Needs to be printed and pasted on my wall, maybe tattooed on my thigh.
I stumbled across this post via the explore page. Thank you for such a luscious meditation and invitation, which I’m receiving as an exploration of reading as spiritual practice.
Such a moving read. Thank you.
eeee really really loved this peice. May we expand to the full realm of what reading is
Loved this :’)
I went hunting for a coloured pencil in my drawers instead of going to buy a new one, and discovered two Winnie the Pooh pencils in blue and red that I don’t remember buying. Seemed very you!
can you do a list of books that heal you next? i need books that i can sit with and take in lately🌙
reading my mother's library and all the secret art books of the world and david foster from freak art men
Have you ever heard of commonplace books? I think they would fit right in with this list!
i had to make an effort to read it (because i'm such a bad reader) just to discover that i love reading
thank you, i love you