House note
The discipline of pleasure
An opening note on appetite, discernment, and choosing what deserves our attention.
Pleasure has been made to seem either frivolous or automatic. We are interested in a more exacting possibility: that enjoyment can be cultivated with the same seriousness as judgment.
The well-made room, the sentence that asks to be read twice, and the object whose balance is understood only in the hand all depend upon attention.
A considered life is not a smaller life. It is one in which fewer things become invisible.