Tag: books
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Pilot Light
©January 2025 Janet Maher, Text & Image, All Rights Reserved On January 23 I posted a draft of the following (edited and expanded here) to my current Instagram account, but it only appeared on the one I used before relocating to Rhode Island. This, and other complications that permeated the month, motivated me to begin…
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Unpacking My Library
Walter Benjamin famously wrote about his deeply felt and avid book collecting as he opened boxes to organize his books to place on shelves (a chapter in Illuminations, Schocken Books, 1969). Although he spoke lovingly of particular details about his collection that included memories of acquisition, his approach to collecting books seems to me to be…
Trusting the Process: Getting There From Here 