7/9: coming across
...one of my favorite sentences today. I was in the library to proctor a make-up exam, and I was paging through A Room with a View, looking for words that I might want to use in a found-poetry pamphlet project. I landed on the page with this sentence: "Choose a place where you won't do harm--yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sun." I wasn't looking for the sentence, and when I got the book off the shelf I wasn't even remembering that it contained this wonderful sentence (though I had prized it when I had come across it years ago)--so it felt like a gift to come across it again, while my spirits were low, and think, "Ah, yes."
7/8: trying to understand
...myself. A lifelong project! It may never be complete, but it's good to chart some of the workings of that inner weather.
7/7: feeling relief
...from some bodily pains that had been getting me down for the past few days. Having a break from the pains made it easier to be motivated today.
7/6: exercising
...with a YouTube video. Usually I walk while listening to an audiobook, but I wanted to try something new, so I found a walking/light dancing video online (to K-Pop music) and gave it a go.
7/5: reading
...about Frederico Mompou's Music of Silence then listening to his compositions while tinkering with typography this morning.
7/2: having
...Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry come to mind twice in less than 12 hours. The first time, I was thinking about whether or not to use it in a Latin class in the coming semester, and I remembered that a friend and I spent an evening paging through a facsimile edition of it back in the spring of 1990. The second time, I was looking through Artforum and saw that someone had listed an exhibit on Les Très Riches Heures as one of their favorites of the past year.
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