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Since our hiking season is officially over (I learned that some people enjoy hiking during the winter, but I don’t think it’s for me), I finally came back to my commonplace notes that I neglected since April. I started catching up on my backlogs, and I enjoyed revisiting the quotes and passages that struck me a few months ago. One of them is this:

For me, the artist’s job is to encourage us. Stimulate us. To pay attention to things we might otherwise take for granted. Because so much of life is what you might just walk by and not even give it any thought.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Diary of a CEO: “The Harsh Truth About Horoscopes”

At dahil hindi na guest room ang aking home office, ang saya na ulit mag-journal! I miss writing here and being surrounded by my notebooks and books and crybabies.

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