The notebook is a page, not a feed: set a passage down, write beside it, add a stamp or a strip of tape. Slow on purpose.
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@locuscommunis.comThe notebook is a page, not a feed: set a passage down, write beside it, add a stamp or a strip of tape. Slow on purpose.
#journaling #commonplacebook #readingjournal #booksky
@locuscommunis.comCommonplace books were never meant to be tidy. Keep the line, date it, say one thing about it. The journal is what accumulates.
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@locuscommunis.comA journal you keep for life has to be able to leave with you. Your Locus Communis journal can be exported whenever you like; the notes and passages are yours.
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@northseapoets.bsky.social– Junichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
@locuscommunis.comA margin note doesn't have to be clever. "Read this on the train" is enough. A year on, the journal page still holds the line and what you thought of it that day.
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@locuscommunis.comSome margin notes are only for you. Private ink seals your private notes on your own device before they leave it.
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@locuscommunis.comEach day your book hands back a few passages you kept long ago. Write beside one and that note becomes today's journal entry.
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@locuscommunis.comEvery note you write in the margin of a passage lands in your journal, on the page for the day you wrote it. Read for a year and you've kept a diary of your reading without sitting down to write one.
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@locuscommunis.comA good way to end the week: open your journal to today's page and write one line beside a passage you kept. Future you will be glad of the date on it.
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@northseapoets.bsky.social– Ann Stevenson, 'Ragwort', from Poems on the Underground
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social"It is their shame, not yours."
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social"Ever since they shed the golden handcuffs of royal arts patrons, visual and performing artists have found themselves at odds with despots."
—Jennifer Ruben, 2 Oct 2026, "Undaunted Arts in D.C."
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.socialThis "just" in: the Felon-In-Chief engaged in Insurrection.
I'm re-posting because it needs to be said many, many times over again: weak & spineless Republicans colluded to try bringing down the US government in January 2021.
Treason has no statute of limitations.
@northseapoets.bsky.social– WS Graham, Poetry Scotland, No. 3 July 1946; reprinted in NFM, pp. 379-83
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social"Equality is not a dream. It is a decision.
—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 22 September 2026
@northseapoets.bsky.social– Yang Lianke, The Art of Fiction No. 269. Paris Review, Summer 2026
@northseapoets.bsky.social– Marina Tsvetaeva, Art in the Light of Conscience
