When I first began reading Brain Pickings—eons ago—I would skip her commentary in the “margins” and go straight to the quotes, because that is what I wanted.
Now a days the quotes pale into insignificance as I rush to read what she has to day. If ever there was a case of the frame being more beautiful than the art it contains, it is the Marginalian’s (@mariapopova)

#Art #Gratitude #Reading #Marginalia #Books #Reading #NaturalPhilosophy #MariaPopova

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

a tha Am Faclair Beag ag eadar-theangachadh gu "Is luach mìle facal dealbh."

#illustration #marginalia #drawing #manuscript #phoenix #dragon #ainneamhag #dràgon #Gàidhlig

Poem about death, with anonymois annotations.

(Selected Poems of John Crowe Ransom)

#poetry #marginalia

Black Rock Summit
Peak of Black Rock Mountain

Back in college, I often drove out to the Blue Ridge to clear my head. A couple of hours on the Parkway or Skyline Drive did wonders to reset whatever was muddling my thoughts. My buddy, sometime roommate, often did the same. He was up from Guatemala for a while this summer, and we converged out in Shenandoah fo
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/07/19/black-rock-summit/
#Images #Land #Marginalia #Memory #BlueRidgeMountains #PostcardsFromTheRoad

Sailing on the Piankatank ~ Video
https://youtu.be/09XimWxZtlo

A dozen or so handmade wooden sailboats gather every spring at an old steamboat landing on the Piankatank River, a tidal river on the Chesapeake Bay. Sailors in the Old Bay Club of the Traditional Small Craft Association meet up with builders from the Deltaville Maritime
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/06/19/sailing-on-the-piankatank-video/
#Marginalia #Melonseeds #Video #Water #ChesapeakeBay #Melonseed #Sailboat #WoodenBoat

The stars are bright, the moon is a slim waxing crescent and the witches fly ~ Tha na reultan soilleir, a' ghealach mar gob soillse, agus tha na bana-bhuidseachan ag itealaich

From a 15th century manuscript called 'Le Champion des Dames' (The Ladies' Champion) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hop_%C3%A0_droite_!.jpg

#manuscript #vintage #witch #Gàidhlig #drawing #illustration #marginalia

Urbanna (something-something) Rum Appreciation, Rowing and Small Boat Meetup
View from our campsite. Jim Luton's Sharpie Skiff, now owned and sailed by his friend Kerry Fisher.

Vera England can tell you the entire official name. She told me four times and I sti
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/05/24/urbanna-something-something-rum-appreciation-rowing-and-small-boat-meetup/
#History #Images #Marginalia #Melonseeds #PostcardsfromtheRoad #Water #ChesapeakeBay #Melonseed #PostcardsfromtheRoad

Visitations
Locals report that a black bear has wandered down from the ridge, with the knowledge of doorknobs and handles. Hungry from winter hibernation, at night it enters cars and houses looking for food. Our hosts have shooed it away from the front door, only to find it pawing in through French doors in back moments later.

It is believed the bear learned this skill from the ski resort above the valley, where transients fro
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/04/30/visitations/
#Marginalia

Spring Rain
Rockfish Valley, Nellysford

Met friends for brunch out in Nelson County. Lots of rain the past few days, really making all the green things pop off. Mountainsides are green patchwork quilts, and streams are full.
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/04/30/spring-rain/
#Marginalia

Nature is Metal ~ Wool Sower Wasp Galls
Wool Sower Gall on young White Oak

The tiny Wool Sower Wasp stings a fresh young stem and deposits her eggs. The developing eggs use chemicals like hormones to stimulate the tree to produce a very specific growth structure that encases and protects the larvae. This growth is not a normal shape or color or texture of t
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/04/24/nature-is-metal-wool-sower-wasp-galls/
#Images #Land #Marginalia #nature #PostcardsfromtheRoad

#Marginalia s an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content from the beginning of the web

https://search.marginalia.nu/

Axe Handle Table Project
The axe handle console table is done. I may add a coat of varnish when the epoxy cures; but probably not necessary.

It's a fun art project, with a story.

The Slab Story

Long ago, a friend had an ancient beloved tulip poplar on his land, which had to be taken down. Hundreds of years old, it was easi
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/04/16/axe-handle-table-project/
#Art #Images #Marginalia #Memory #Words #Carpentry #Funiture #Handmade #Maker #Projects #Woodwork

Axe Handle Slab Table ~ Mortises, Tenons, and Butterfly Keys
Cut the copper butterfly keys and polished them up. I decided to leave the engraving. This was a slab of solid copper was the embossing plate for the cover of a little book we published years ago. I like seeing the remnants of the etching. The book was a collection of works by loca
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/04/02/axe-handle-slab-table-mortises-tenons-and-butterfly-keys/
#Art #Marginalia #axehandletable #consoletable #slabtable

Art Parade
https://youtu.be/8LQnt1lW9WA

This weekend we got to be in a parade. An art parade.

Our friend, the painter Giselle Gautreau, has as show that opens in April 2023 at the 2nd Street Gallery in Charlottesville. We have some of her art hanging prominently in our house. She formerly worked in large formats, then swore it off because the logistics are so challenging. But in this case she just co
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/03/28/art-parade/
#Art #Images #Marginalia #Video

Southern Northern Lights
Northern Lights in Scottsville, Virginia. Shot with an iPhone on a tripod.

We had a rare treat here last night. Just before midnight, the Aurora Borealis blew up big time.

People in Virginia got a chance to see something that rarely appears this far south. Folks up on the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah National Park had especially nice views. Some of their photos are amazi
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/03/24/southern-northern-lights/
#Images #Land #Marginalia

Foolproof by Sander van der Linden

Rukmani and her family were driving to a temple in Tamil Nadu, India, in May 2018, when they stopped to ask for directions from an elderly local lady. It seemed a safe enough thing to do.

The family hadn’t realised that almost every local with access to WhatsApp had been receiving dire warnings of “child lifters”, forwarded from group chat to group ch

https://timharford.com/2023/03/foolproof-by-sander-van-der-linden/

#Marginalia #OtherWriting

Talks about the Truth Detective

I'm giving some talks about my imminent book, The Truth Detective. Come along!

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford - 2pm on 1st April at the Oxford Literary Festival

Oxford Maths Festival - 14th May. Details to come

Hay Festival - 26th May. Details to come.

https://timharford.com/2023/03/talks-about-the-truth-detective/

#Marginalia #Speeches

I like how the miniature dragon is just shouty, while the doodled copy in the margin is positively murderously maniacal.

https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.14.9/UV#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=200&r=0&xywh=-196%2C-2%2C3993%2C5227 #medievodons #marginalia

Not sure I'd come across the concept of "marginalia" before: https://ryanholiday.net/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-book/ #CommomplaceBook #marginalia

added #marginalia and #wiby #SearchEngines to Awesome Search Engines repo:
https://github.com/davidshq/awesome-search-engines

#search #InformationRetrieval