Well, I’ve certainly enjoyed reading them, Ali, and hope you carry on for a while. I like the idea of writing these posts making you more attentive, if that’s the right word. I used to think of photography in that way when I had film cameras - as a means of helping me to look - but digital photography is too easy now and I’ve stopped looking with the same attentiveness. I haven’t written anything for quite a while either, so maybe I need to think What next? as well, and find a form to provide the discipline. Thank you...
It's the form that can be tricky to find, but when you do...
Funny you mention photography, I think because doing this has made me more alert to scenes and angles etc, I want to start using film again. I think to get away from the instant-ness of digital but to also develop the eye. Really odd starting to do one little thing and then it leaches out into so much else. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Here for each new day Ali, because oddly, in reading I find myself more attuned and quietly noting the rhythms of my own day. Sitting with them; the ordinary, the new, the lost, the mundane, and the simple affirming interactions of a shared coffee or bracing sea walk.
In short, keep writing, please, and I'll keep reflecting.
I love knowing that. It's funny when things make you tune in more, think that's exactly what I was trying to describe, just being more alive to it. And very much here for shared coffee and bracing walks!
Well, I’ve certainly enjoyed reading them, Ali, and hope you carry on for a while. I like the idea of writing these posts making you more attentive, if that’s the right word. I used to think of photography in that way when I had film cameras - as a means of helping me to look - but digital photography is too easy now and I’ve stopped looking with the same attentiveness. I haven’t written anything for quite a while either, so maybe I need to think What next? as well, and find a form to provide the discipline. Thank you...
It's the form that can be tricky to find, but when you do...
Funny you mention photography, I think because doing this has made me more alert to scenes and angles etc, I want to start using film again. I think to get away from the instant-ness of digital but to also develop the eye. Really odd starting to do one little thing and then it leaches out into so much else. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Here for each new day Ali, because oddly, in reading I find myself more attuned and quietly noting the rhythms of my own day. Sitting with them; the ordinary, the new, the lost, the mundane, and the simple affirming interactions of a shared coffee or bracing sea walk.
In short, keep writing, please, and I'll keep reflecting.
I love knowing that. It's funny when things make you tune in more, think that's exactly what I was trying to describe, just being more alive to it. And very much here for shared coffee and bracing walks!
"What can you subtract. Writing is largely a subtractive game, or it is for me." I subtract a lot as well.