{"id":1360,"date":"2014-02-22T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2014-02-22T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:17:29","slug":"coffee-6-and-a-good-mull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE (#6) AND A GOOD MULL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Krista Tippett interviewed Anne Hamilton<\/a> (2\/13\/14), who calls herself a maker, rather than an artist (interesting), and thinks the big question is “How can we be together?” Oh yes!<\/p>\n

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These rocks work well to\/gether though maybe \/ not as a natural fit.<\/p><\/div>\n

As not getting along is the subject matter of most books (maybe most art, too), people who read clearly know more ways to avoid the pitfalls, advance getting along which is the essence of better being together, and thereby make the world a little bit better.\u00a0 So it is that readers matter and RB serves a social purpose, even as I have great fun choosing the books and schmoozing with you all.<\/p>\n

Aside<\/strong>:\u00a0 Anne Hamilton’s makings were part of a Minneapolis Institute of Arts exhibition titled “Sacred.”\u00a0 Does this sort-of-link to things holy suggest she could be the patron saint of Roseledge Books?<\/p>\n

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Olivia Judson went through her father’s files<\/a>. He had, like most of us, kept lots of things in lots of drawers apparently for a lifetime.\u00a0 They fueled memories, true,\u00a0 but mostly they reflect the particulars of another’s life which will remain elusive.\u00a0 Is remaining unknown what you want either from storing or from clearing out the drawers or closets of a lifetime?<\/p>\n

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Clutter or the stuff \/ of life? As grouped by color, \/form, size, or function? <\/p><\/div>\n

(I can hear the shouts of “No! No!”)<\/p>\n

So how about grouping your adventures in categories that help others make the sense of your life that YOU choose?\u00a0 (If this sounds like controlling from the grave, I learned it from a master, my mother, who left four pages of single-spaced, typed instructions of how to handle her funeral, e.g. “cookies and coffee are sufficient after the funeral.\u00a0 You do not have to take everyone out to lunch.” Oh but I\u00a0 did, mom.)<\/p>\n

RB has a suggestion for organizing\u00a0 the ever-expanding stuff of your life:\u00a0 How about\u00a0 choosing a most apt\u00a0 book\u00a0 that gives meaning to the WAY TOO MANY particulars of each category?\u00a0 Think of the fun in thinking about memorable books.\u00a0 And you can always rearrange things as the days of your life go on. \u00a0 Jane Mount and Thessaly La Forge have conveniently compiled a book of examples in My Ideal Bookshelf<\/strong>.\u00a0 What a wonderful life-puzzle to leave for others to decipher. I wonder what books Ms. Judson’s father would have chosen or what books she might chose for him after her time with his files.\u00a0 I’ll bet they wouldn’t be the same list.\u00a0 Maybe some overlap.<\/p>\n

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I love catalogers.\u00a0 They are the pickiest people in the world.\u00a0 They understand that a typo can change the world, and NOTHING stands in the way of their explaining in detail how and why that is so. (Memories of meetings with sheet music catalogers past.)\u00a0 But if you are lucky enough to have any catalogers as friends, they also keep us at least respectable, if not honest.\u00a0 So it is I know the author of The Yarn Whisperer is Clara Parkes,<\/strong> not Clara Peakes.\u00a0 Thank you, thank you, M from NC.<\/p>\n

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The coffee may on\/ly be in the mind's eye, but \/ that's enough for now.<\/p><\/div>\n

I want to be the Intel anthropologist<\/a> who looks carefully at users and non-users of their actual and potential products and\u00a0 asks what do they do and why, then works with others to make Intel products matter more to more people.\u00a0 Only I want to do this with libraries.\u00a0 We have never needed more the good information that libraries make available, yet we fritter away days, money, media space fretting about the takeover of the latest technology.\u00a0 Who cares?\u00a0 Worry instead about– and look into — the sorry state of affairs that is ours because too many ninnies act on bad information and don’t know the difference.<\/p>\n

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With a satisfied ah-h-h, the list of mull-able topics grows and the items expand: Anne Hamilton, Olivia Judson’s father, catalogers, categories, anthropologists in organizations, good sources, learning and libraries, getting along, and world-bettering books and readers.\u00a0 So many things to mull; so much cold and snow to avoid while mulling.\u00a0 Surely Memorial Day and Maine will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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