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Continue reading →: Chance Particulars: The joys of looking up and down
Experience here the rhapsodies of William Beebe, an oceanographer born in 1877, who found a prime source of happiness in observing the world: ‘The supreme joy of learning, of discovering, of adding tiny facts to the foundation of the everlasting why of the universe; all this makes life one never-ending…
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Continue reading →: Chance Particulars: My early history with field notebook-keeping
When I was about seven my father gave me a little pink diary with its own golden key. Each night from my pillow, I penciled a line about my day in Mrs. Rudy’s class at elementary school. As a teenager in Japan I kept a journal of poems that came…
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Continue reading →: Chance Particulars: Advice on notebook-keeping from the early explorers
Hark to these 1580’s instructions to those embarking on sea voyages: ‘Take with you paper and ynke and keepe a continual journal or remembrance day by day, of all things as shall fall out worth the knowledge, not forgetting or omitting to write it, and note it, that it may…
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Continue reading →: Chance Particulars: An invitation to the field notebook
The brilliant lapis lazuli flash of a Blue Morpho butterfly glimpsed in the Amazon. The eager, black eyes of an Inuit girl on the tundra who said she hated trees. A conversation with an early boyfriend about the responsibilities of love. Musings on friendship sparked by a podcaster’s remark. All…
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Continue reading →: How to keep a Field Notebook: Cherish the Oddities
Here is a lovely passage from Enid Bagnold on the value of catching chance particulars on the page: To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower…
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