Archive - The Cultivated Amateur

"A certain grain of stupidity"

Flannery O'Connor, Charlotte Mason, and the habit of attention as a habit of being, for writers and other humans

Jun 13 •

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Sipping Beauty: "Because life is short and you too are thirsty."

Cultivating a love of the beautiful in small ways and brief moments, however and whenever possible

May 31 •

Sipping Beauty: an occasional series

A poem I didn't know I loved. Maybe you could love it, too.

May 24 •

Reading in the dark

Some ideas for maintaining a reading life in dark trials, dried out exhaustion, and/or the fog of uncertainty as to what to read next.

May 15 •

Sipping Beauty - a series

A little loveliness to brighten your day

May 8 •

Ends and Pieces: "The Link of Belonging"

Scholar and student as members of "the society of neighbors" through the intellect and imagination

May 2 •

Cathedrals and Privies

Cultivating the important and the necessary in the life of the amateur

May 1 •

April 2025

The Clarity of Distance

Apr 26 •

"For Ancient Rules a Just Esteem"

The duty, the privilege, and the necessity of the cultivated amateur

Apr 25 •

Silent Saturday

Apr 19 •

"The 'Unpremeditated Song'"

What is Poetry? Part two: Poetry is Involuntary' - but what does Involuntary mean?

Apr 18 •

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