A Note about Field Notes
One of my favorite blogs is The Morning Porch in which Dave Bonta describes, in 140 characters or less, the view from his porch in Pennsylvania. A rich portrait builds up over time. I like the way he creates a whole scene in a couple of sentences, and I’d like to try to do that with these field notes about Robert College. Instead of following a 140 character format, I try to follow an American Sentence format. The American Sentence was defined by Allen Ginsberg as a sentence consisting of 17 syllables. My field notes might be more than one sentence, or they might be phrases instead of sentences, but each field note (after the first two or three) consists of 17 syllables.
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