I’ve been saving the first lines meme for when I needed it. Today I need it. So here is a blast from the past and the first line from the first post of the month for each month this past year.
January: On Beauty and Being Just might require more than one post since the book is fairly bristling with page points, but we’ll see how I do with this one.
February: The drawback of listening to something like The Iliad is that when I want to write about it I have nothing to refer to to jog my memory for names and dialogue.
March: When I look out my window I wish I saw this: (beautiful white sand beach and blue ocean)
April: This week’s Emerson essay from his book Society and Solitude is Art.
May: The Harper’s article “A World in Three Aisles: Browsing the Post-Digital Library” by Gideon Lewis-Kraus is excellent.
June: My peonies are blooming like crazy and they have miraculously stood up against the rain earlier in the week.
July: Last week I read the first half of Emerson’s essay Poetry and Imagination. The rest of the essay is very much a critique of poetry, a statement of what poetry is and should be, as well as what a poet is and should be. (I know that’s two sentences but the first one on its own was lonely)
August: I’ve been on a big paddle boat on the St Croix River all day in the wind and the hot sun and the humidity playing “merging nonprofits meet your new coworkers!”
September: Emerson has written about inspiration before, but his essay entitled “Inspiration,” is only a little changed from the lecture he gave by the same name as part of a series at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 1872.
October: Emerson’s essay “Aristocracy” was first a lecture read in in England in 1848 then reworked a bit with additions from other papers to be printed in Lectures and Biographical Sketches.
November: As one of the books for the Outmoded Authors Challenge I chose G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.
December: Emerson is taking the week off since I spent the weekend shoveling snow and working on school stuff.
Do you think I read any Emerson essays this year?
Emerson? Who’s he?
Too much Emerson!
Not enough Emerson!
Where are the cats? And your dog – who gets even less blog time.
I definitely detect an Emerson theme!
You can never have too much Emerson!
Sorry sister, you are overruled!
Dark Orpheus, I guess the cats and the dog don’t ever get talked about at the beginning of the month.
You are so good with your Emerson project. I wish I could stick to my own little mini projects as well!!
Danielle, you do a fine job at sticking with your projects! Don’t short change yourself.
Great site. I loved the blogroll, I’m off to look at each one. Could take days!!
Grant
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