commonplacing

"...my standards are not speed, ease, and quantity. I have already left behind too much evidence that writing with a pencil, I have written too fast, too easily, and too much. I would like to be a better writer, and for that I need help from other humans , not a machine."
 
The Art of Commonplacing: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

I have been jotting quotes from books and other written materials for many years. Sometimes I find scribbled bits of paper tucked in a bedside drawer or a school folder, bits where I have written something that I wanted to reread and remember. I began the book in the above photo several years ago.
               

       Who knew at the time of its beginnings there was a formal name for such keeping?

In 2018 one of my purposed goals is to organize all my keeping books in order to get them completely up to date. I am still finding quotes I've written down in other places, and when I do it is immediately  transposed into this one single book.