Why Martha McPhee Carries a Notebook Everywhere | Wirecutter

Why Martha McPhee Carries a Notebook Everywhere | Wirecutter

I take it with me because it helps me track the uncharted territory of the present moment. In this act of gathering—scrawls about things noticed on the way to a store, the playbill for my son’s brief acting career, glue-sticked to the page—I’m forced to slow down and tend to the parts that evoke a whole.

(Via reader Rahul Gaitonde, published several months ago but I’m just seeing it now.)