Portrait of Eleanor Whitfield

About the author

Eleanor Whitfield

Eleanor Whitfield writes about attention, craft, and how to live deliberately. She is the author of The Attentive Life and lives in Edinburgh.

17 published essays

The body of work

Writing by Eleanor Whitfield

Habits

Against the Inbox

Email is a to-do list written by other people. A few ways to stop living inside it.

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The Good Life

Walking as a Method

Most of my best thinking has happened between one place and another. Notes on walking without a destination.

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Habits

Small Rituals

A ritual is a habit with the volume turned down. Three I would not do without.

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