The Idea Shepherd
How to slow down, reflect well, and uncover hidden insight in everything around you.
The Idea Shepherd
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The other day I saw a picnic table under a tree, and it stopped me.
God made the tree. People made the table.
It reminded me of what T.D. Jakes once said: God didn’t make tables, He made trees — and He gave you a brain to imagine what those trees could be.
That table was a “creation from creation.” And it’s not just furniture — it’s a setting for life
... See moreMake your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Petya K. Grady • Issue 107: Commonplace journaling for mere mortals
The emperor of the future will be the emperor of ideas. — Winston Churchill
I’m not a wordsmith but I am an analogysmith.
I don’t need more quotes in my archive.
I need more truth in my day.
I need more truth in my day.
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“We write to taste life twice.” —Anaïs Nin
ChatGPT
Why do I use Sublime? Is it another social media app?
In my experience with it, it doesn’t feel like a social media app. It is “multiplayer” but only in the sense that others can find ideas from you and you find ideas from other people. No liking or commenting. No pressure to save something hoping others will “save it”. I use it to save books I wan
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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
- G.K. Chesterton
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