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By Seeing the Everyday | February 10, 2010
Thank you for asking about a way to add Seeing the Everyday’s button to your blog. This post provides what we hope is a simple solution. We appreciate your warm support, and please share any feedback with us.
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You help me ’see’
By Seeing the Everyday | February 5, 2010
HM Baker wrote a letter addressed to Seeing the Everyday: “You do just what you say: you help me ’see’ how much the small, everyday moments are the big moments.” Read her letter.
Thank you HM for sharing your support and thoughts. Your words are encouraging to us all.
*Photo by HM Baker
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Prosaic Events Shape Our Lives
By Seeing the Everyday | January 20, 2010
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Home is the center
By Seeing the Everyday | November 19, 2009
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“I was entranced”
By Seeing the Everyday | November 16, 2009
A note sent from L.F. after discovering Seeing the Everyday (posted with permission). Thank you for your support and for sharing your thoughts.
Hello,
I’m new to Seeing the Everyday magazine (just purchased my first subscription and a gift subscription for my sister). I saw your mag at my doctor’s office and I was entranced! I even stayed after my appointment to finish reading it…I wanted to steal it, to tell you the truth. I can’t wait to receive my own first issue.
I’m wondering if it’s possible to purchase previous issues? It makes me sad to think of all the beauty and inspiration on paper I’ve missed out on; I really hope there is a way I can get a hold of what’s already been published
Thank you for a prompt response. I commend you on an excellent product; please don’t go under like so many other great magazines are doing.
Sincerely,
L.F.
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Domestic joys by Walt Whitman
By Seeing the Everyday | October 29, 2009
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Prosaics in family
By Seeing the Everyday | October 28, 2009
What is at the core of the best family relationships is a question contemplated and explored in every age and by every family. While studies have found many factors that predict success in the home, much of modern research and experience converges on what may be the most notable indicator: prosaics.
“Prosaics” is a term, coined by contemporary literary philosopher Gary Saul Morson, used to capture a way of thinking that
“. . . Questions whether the most important events may not be the most ordinary and everyday ones—events that we do not appreciate simply because they are so commonplace. To adapt Abe Lincoln’s saying, God must have loved the ordinary events because he made so many of them. Cloaked in their very ordinariness, the prosaic events that truly shape our lives—that truly are our lives—escape our notice. The truths we seek are hidden in plain view, and for that reason are all the more difficult to discern.”
In other words, the big milestones of life, important as graduations and job promotions are, may cause us to overlook what Morson calls
“the infinitely numerous and apparently inconsequential ordinary ones, which taken together, are far more effective and significant. After all, memorable events are memorable just because they are exceptional. To imagine that they are important just because they are memorable and noticeable would be like concluding that because only treetops are visible on a distant hill, nothing exists there but trees.”
Prosaics assumes that
“[order] is always the result of work. It is never given, but always made.”
“Whatever wholeness we achieve requires enormous work, which is the effort of life; and that work is never complete . . . . [We work] to develop the habit of evaluating and correcting ‘the tiny alterations’ of our thoughts moment to moment.”
“[Creating good] demands energy, like the moment-to-moment conscientiousness of a good mother.”
(above extracts from G. S. Morson (Autumn 1988), Prosaics: An approach to the humanities, American Scholar.)
Our most common, ordinary, daily life experiences take place at home—in families. By applying the philosophy of prosaics, the work of family and all of our interactions therein become the most effective and significant of all we do.
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Pertinent to the work I am engaged in
By Seeing the Everyday | October 19, 2009
I really loved this last issue of Seeing the Everyday. It is so pertinent to the work I am engaged in as a mother and wife, and it both encouraged and inspired me to make some improvements. I love the quotes, the anecdotes, the essays at the end. Thanks for all your work with it.
- Kathryn Ward (Washington) in response to Issue 6
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Enjoying the small things in life is the way to go
By Seeing the Everyday | May 11, 2009
Jane Tercheria says reading Seeing the Everyday “helps confirm that enjoying the small things in life is really the way to go.” Read more of Jane’s thoughts by clicking on her quote above.
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It is What I Needed . . .
By Seeing the Everyday | April 18, 2009
Victoria from Norway says that Seeing the Everyday is “What I needed this week to keep mindfully focused and not get absorbed by work.” Read more of Victoria’s thoughts on her blog post.
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