From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.
Index cards. "Everything begins with attention." "attention given to one thing cannot be given, then and there, to another, and no moment comes to us twice." Ba-I "To pay attention is to live, and to live is to pay attention."

AJ = Alan Jacobs (source)

AK = Austin Kleon (source)

We think we should be living in the chaotic, cacophonous megalopolis and retreat to our cottage only in desperate circumstances. But the reverse is true: our attention cottage should be our home, our secure base, the place from which we set out on our adventures in contemporaneity and to which we always make our nostos.

Alan Jacobs on The Attention Cottage

Cross Pollination 🐝