Look at the World!
The music of the spheres is beautiful, and yet we can become deaf to it. The solution? Look! Listen! Look at the world!
John Rutter’s Look at the World — RSS and email readers may need to click through
I was glad to see this blog post from John Piper reappear recently, featured on Lore Ferguson’s Sayable. It is clear that we all need to see the spectacular to live the mundane.
And in a world that runs toward efficiency (as if that alone were productivity), we would do well to wonder often. It is not until we have grappled with the question of what on earth we are here for that we can begin to think about how to make the most of the days we have been given.
Taking Digital Notes
Digital notetaking is not without its dangers. James Loeffler, Professor at the University of Virginia, wrote for TIME about why he banned laptops from several courses.
Distraction is obviously one reason. But among the attentive, Loeffler noticed that laptops had become a way to record everything, when part of the art of notetaking is knowing what to record and what to let go.
So for those taking digital notes, I offer these suggestions:
Reading Old Books
New books are great. I just finished N. D. Wilson’s excellent Death by Living, which reminds me of Chesterton with its fresh, poetic prose, and its ability to awaken me to the truth I had almost forgotten.
Photo credit: William Hoiles
But I think I have been reading too many new books, and C. S. Lewis hits home when he writes on the value of the old and the primary:
Saving Keystrokes with AutoHotkey
Have you ever copied and pasted something from the Web or another document, only to find that the formatting came along?
I discovered text expanders from Michael Hyatt in the past year, and immediately went hunting for a free one. I chose AutoHotkey (Windows only); and while I thought I would use it only as a text expander, there are other uses.
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Copy and paste without the formatting
Four Thoughts on Reading Well
Summer is usually a good season for reading. This summer is no exception.
Photo credit: Taylor LeopoldEarlier this year, I read How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren and learned a few things about reading.