The whole daybook is files in a git repo — no database, no CMS. Each
entry is a tiny markdown file rendered with a deliberately forgiving
parser, so a stray < in a casual note can never break the build:
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date: 2026-07-09 18:45
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The note itself.Posting is git push.
Opened a daybook on the site — short entries, dated, no schedule. Casual
things mostly, technical things sometimes, photographs when the day
deserves one. A notebook, not a network.
The Red Room. Two whole books — Room to Dream and Catching the Big Fish — read entire; the sourced quotes; a set of playable meditations; his eccentricities and his weather reports; his Tbilisi interview with Radio Liberty; and seven of his lines given the animation they deserve.
tags: david-lynch, cinema, meditation, transcendental-meditation, twin-peaks, eraserhead, creativity, dreams, consciousness, the-red-room
Dawn over the salt marsh: her ars poetica as a triptych, Wild Geese in flight, an attention practice to go and do, Blackwater Pond to disturb, a field index of her creatures, a prayer built from ordinary things, Percy and the dog songs, the one wild and precious question, the essential poems, her craft lectures, the two rare interviews, and the whole shelf in order.
tags: mary-oliver, poetry, attention, nature, provincetown, devotion, wild-geese, blackwater, dogs, prayer
The happiest man alive — a school of living, drawn from Henry Miller. The whole of The Wisdom of the Heart readable unabridged (17 essays, 82,000 words), plus 448 curated quotes from across his work; the life that earned the persona; an interactive breath, a watercolour, a cosmic eye; and fifteen drills in living fully.
tags: henry miller, vitality, living fully, paris, big sur, the wisdom of the heart, tropic of cancer, art of living, acceptance, bohemian
Pull the lever. The server picks one of the curated geekish feeds at random, fetches it live, and hands back a single post. No recommendation engine. No algorithm. The roll is the recommendation.
tags: rss, blogroll, random, tool, reading
Fifty-two quotations from the English Wikiquote, plus three vignettes — on Beauty (2009), on oikophilia, the love of home (Green Philosophy, 2012), and on the working life as Scruton lived it after dinner (I Drink Therefore I Am, 2009). Buslingthorpe · Cambridge · the Wiltshire farm · Malmesbury. 1944 — 2020.
tags: scruton, philosophy, conservatism, aesthetics, beauty, england, music, wagner, oikophilia, wine, hunting
✦ memory · ☽ night · ∞ loops · ❧ margins · ◆ proof
a personal library in perpetual arrangement · MMXXVI