Only that day dawns to which we are awake.*
Henry David Thoreau

Creativity is not doing something, it is looking through whatever we do with the eye of the sleepless watcher, it is remaining through whatever we say an uncritically receptive listener.**
James Carse

Slow down,
Be quiet,
Open up,
Hang around,
Ask questions,
Notice 2.0:
the more you study
delight,
the more
delight
there is to study^ –
Still, I miss so much,
I’ll keep trying.

The test of a student is not how much he knows, but how much he wants to know.^^

*Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise;
**James Clear’s Breakfast at the Victory;
^Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights;
^^Alice Wellington Rollins, from James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love.