This magazine looks amazing and I want a subscription badly. It's where I read about this beautiful philosophy of prosaics.
Literary critic Gary Saul Morson:
The philosophy of prosaics “. . . 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.”
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“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.”
Do you ever feel like you are living your life waiting for big wonderful moments?
Like you are just one step or one year or ten pounds or one child developmental phase away from finally breaking free of your current doldrums?
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Thank you for making me look up the word prosaic. I like it. I think I'll use it in a sentence every day. Only for everyday, ordinary things, though.
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