commonplace book

[gwyneira]

Most of us have a place where we feel it is natural for us to be. For someone it is the open air; she always feels her spirits droop just a little as she goes back into the house, even if she has only been hanging out the washing. For another it is a room lined with books; once, on the first occasion that he visited the British Museum Reading Room

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[sartorias]

Oh, so many places! Book rooms near the top.

[rikibeth]

Book-lined rooms are invariably wonderful, but there are two outdoor places as well: the Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine, and the medieval city of York. Even though I've only been to York once, I was very nearly in tears as my family walked along the walls; it was such a shock of home.

[gwyneira]

I feel rather that way about London, come to think of it. I'd love to go to York and see how it feels.

[rimrunner]

Oh, that's easy: see icon. ;)

Better yet if it's an evergreen woods in the mountains, with the sound of water nearby.

This is why I occasionally think of junking it all and becoming a forest ranger. I have a sabbatical next year...maybe...

[fingersweep]

Outside Stromness. (Although there are some downsides: it rains weekly, all seasons, and there are no trees.)

[athenais]

My natural place is on the shore of a large body of water. I always feel odd being too far from the ocean.

[gwyneira]

I feel rather the same way about mountains, having grown up in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada.