Rule #11 Collect Pennies

Jan 16, 2019 · 36m 43s
Rule #11 Collect Pennies
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This week on How to Write Good, I continue with my rules. Sometimes, I run into something that I continue to go back to again and again. One of the...

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This week on How to Write Good, I continue with my rules. Sometimes, I run into something that I continue to go back to again and again. One of the things that has stuck with me since I read it is a personal essay by Annie Dillard called "Seeing." In the essay, Annie talks about how she used to hide pennies so people would have a surprise they can find. She then connects this idea of pennies to finding small but beautiful things in the world. In my own life, I have found her ideas to be connected to Mark Twain, Zen, mindfulness, liminal spaces, and cliches. And I love cliches.


Seeing by Annie Dillard:
https://aimeeknight.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/seeing.pdf

Here is an article on liminal spaces (very interesting):
https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/general/understanding-how-liminal-space-is-different-from-other-places/

A few articles on liminal space and liminal experiences and thinking:
1) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-creativity-cure/201306/creativity-and-the-liminal-space
2) http://www.liminality.org/about/whatisliminality/
3) http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183983.001.0001/acprof-9780198183983-chapter-1
4) https://medium.com/@davegray/the-roots-of-liminal-thinking-3be4bea6fd63

A summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/summary

An article to give a more comprehensive explanation of mindfulness:
https://www.mindful.org/what-is-mindfulness/



My Website:
www.danielpoppie.com

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One Last Toast for Ebenezer Fleet:
https://www.spreaker.com/show/one-last-toast-for-ebenezer-fleet

Intro and Exit Music Credit: Brain-Eating Zombies from Area 51 by Moolen
http://ccmixter.org/files/moolen/32827
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