Commonplace

locus communis

A single tree in the middle of a vast, open field with a clear, pastel-colored sky overhead.

Meminesse

(To Remember)

Preserving sayings, proverbs, ideas for speeches, or any such fancy, was a valued practice in the ancient and medieval worlds, and enlightenment period.

It was a way of keeping important notes in one place.

A sampling of names worthy of remembrance and whose messages will be delivered through the Portal across Time.

Chesterton - Scruton - Lewis - Milne - Tolstoy - Carroll - Louis Stevenson - Potter - Montaigne - Shakespeare - De Tocqueville - Milton - Mills - Dante

Ancient ceramic vase with a black top and handle, decorated with faded reddish-orange figures and patterns, displayed in a museum setting.

Ancient Greek Lekythos - used to store oil and for funerary rites (R D Milne Antiquities Museum, Queensland).