Navel Gazing

John Dickerson’s Notebooks: The Power of Four Numbers


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In this week’s essay, John discusses the art of attention and how to develop the skill of slow-looking.

 

Notebook Entries:

Notebook 75, page 8. September 2021

1016

 

Notebook 1, page 54. June 1990

-   Magna carta 1215 at Salisbury

-   Girls skipping

-   The Haunch of Venison

-   Chris

 

References:

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

A Little History of the World by E.H Gombrich

Artist Jeff Koons

The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention” by Maria Popova for The Marginalian

Gabfest Reads: A Woman’s Life in Museum Wall Labels” for Political Gabfest 

One Woman Show by Christine Coulson

Grammy-winning artist Jason Isbell talks about the craft of songwriting and his latest music” for CBS News

A Journey Around My Room by Xavier De Maistre

Just think: The Challenges of the Disengaged Mind” by Timothy Wilson, et.al for Science

Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves” by Emily Anthes for the New York Times

One Man’s Meat by E.B. White

 

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.

Email us at [email protected]

 


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