The New Slip Box
Collecting Evocative Language
Inspired by Priscilla Long’s approach to collecting evocative language, I’ve spent decades gathering words and ideas-from index cards to journals to a digital slip box, a Zettelkasten. Now, I share pairings of quotes, art, music, and prompts from this treasure trove, inviting you to join the conversation.
Hope & Listening
"Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons." Vaclav Havel
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force... When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life... When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other... and it is this creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and caste up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom... Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet fascinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way." Brenda Ueland
Musings
What do you experience when you sense a hopeful horizon?
Who really listens to you?