memory Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/memory/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:05:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 memory Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/memory/ 32 32 89931359 Reflections of an Honorable Man: Things My Parents Taught Me https://doingwhatmatters.com/reflections-of-an-honorable-man-things-my-parents-taught-me/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/reflections-of-an-honorable-man-things-my-parents-taught-me/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:05:32 +0000 https://doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4468 It’s almost the end of the year and I’m looking back at all that has happened. Like most years, 2023 brought a mixed bag of events — some happy and some sad. It seemed as though we attended more memorial...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/reflections-of-an-honorable-man-things-my-parents-taught-me/feed/ 0 4468 How to Enjoy Poetry Every Week https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:35:28 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3325 Do you read poetry and share it with your children? I’d like to prescribe a dose of poetry every single day, but I know that might seem daunting. How about poetry every week instead? Start with simple poems, laying a solid...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/feed/ 0 3325 A poem, truth, and the month of May https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/#respond Thu, 05 May 2016 20:14:27 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2476 Under the Willows by James Russell Lowell, 1819 – 1891 May is a pious fraud of the almanac, A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind; Or if, o’er-confident, she trust the date, And, with her...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/feed/ 0 2476 Aunt Edie’s Commonplace Book, 1917-1947 https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:37:49 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2236 “It is very helpful to read with a commonplace book or reading-diary, in which to put down any striking thought in your author, or your own impression of the work, or of any part of it; but not summaries of...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/feed/ 14 2236 How to Memorize https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-memorize/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-memorize/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:20:35 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1664 How (and why) to memorize using the first-letter method or the method of loci.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-memorize/feed/ 9 1664 The Memory Project: Pied Beauty and More https://doingwhatmatters.com/memory-project-pied-beauty/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/memory-project-pied-beauty/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:07:27 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1662 Memory is the storehouse of whatever knowledge we possess; and it is upon the fact of the stores lodged in the memory that we take rank as intelligent beings. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 151 I’ve been thinking about memory...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/memory-project-pied-beauty/feed/ 8 1662 The Power of Copying a Text https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-power-of-copying-a-text/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-power-of-copying-a-text/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 10:20:32 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=368 The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new...

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