Tag: Virginia Woolf
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March 13, 2020
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
According to Virginia Woolf, reading is virtuous. The endeavor – performed well – enhances one’s being. It pleases her to see books on shelves in coffee houses, children’s rooms, and kitchens. In The Common Reader, Woolf celebrates the fact that reading, having evolved over many hundreds of years, has become a staple of the human lifestyle.
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June 10, 2016
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Letting the mind wander allows for thought development, but the mind must maintain a force, a desire to trace that thought. To be present with a single thought, live in it and travel with it. This idea of presence draws us in a single direction, but seems to disregard time and space. Instead, we are to focus on one idea,