New Books!
Prompts for the Morning + Prompts for Better Attention
Hot off the press: 2 Moon Lists “in situ” prompt booklets.
Focused, analog prompt books with sets of questions for when you need a different quality of focus.
William James wrote that experience is “what I agree to attend to.” These booklets (and Moon Lists writ large) are an exercise in that agreement:
The choice to invest and find value in the parts of life that will never be automated, that resist surface-level summary, that get richer the more deliberately you show up to them.
Printed in small quantities at a local shop. Packaged by hand, and washi-taped into these really satisfyingly crinkly paper envelopes I bought last week in Tokyo (from a store that exclusively sold…tiny bags) and hauled back in my carry-on.
NEW: Prompts for the Morning
The idea for this one started with finding my old dusty deck of Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” cards in a box in my storage unit. I opened it up to this heavy hitter: “Repetition is a Form of Change.”
The booklet is centered around one month of mornings. 32 mornings, same time, same-ish place, same activity; different you each time.1
For the cover, I was reading about this Van Gogh show curated around his use of the color yellow. In 1888, he began a series of sunflower paintings while living in Arles, sun-drunk on the quality of summer light in the south of France. He wrote in a letter to his brother Theo: ‘Sunshine, a light which, for want of a better word I can only call yellow – pale sulphur yellow, pale lemon, gold. How beautiful yellow is!’”2
32 prompts. Softcover, staple-bound A5. Space for writing. Available in limited edition.
Purchase: individually or as a set.
BACK IN STOCK: Prompts for Better Attention
This one sold out really fast last time and I forgot to even save myself a copy. I made a few tweaks and reprinted.
Simone Weil called attention “the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Attention isn’t something you’re failing at, or a scarce resource being depleted. The brain is always choosing, associating, constructing; our attention is selective by nature. Attention is something you're always giving away, constantly, to something.
These prompts take inventory of what's been receiving it, and invite being a little more deliberate about what gets it next.
32 prompts, in four acts. Softcover, staple-bound A5. Space for writing. Available in limited edition.
Purchase: individually or as a set.
Originally made in collaboration with friends at Canyon Coffee for their Brooklyn opening, but I never printed any myself!
The letter is so sweet, and also made me laugh because I was imagining texting that line to my friends, verbatim, and them responding,…. are you ok?
Would love to purchase, but am not in the USA. Will you consider shipping elsewhere, or is it too tricky to do? I have my own business FedEx account and could arrange pickup from you to deliver to me (in Cape Town). I'll just need a pickup address, phone number and weight of the parcel. Possible?