How many trees or shrubs or faces or skylines do we pass by and hardly notice?
How many things do we dismiss as 'boring'? Things like a concrete block wall or a lamp post or a weed flourishing in a crack on the footpath? We deny ourselves a real gift, a treausre.
Try this activity, suggested by John Cage. He asks us to look at something ... simply look.
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
If it is still boring, then eight.
Then sixteen.
Then thirty-two.
Eventually one discovers it is not boring at all."
Today may we discover something beautiful in something mundane.
May its story be revealed to us.
How many things do we dismiss as 'boring'? Things like a concrete block wall or a lamp post or a weed flourishing in a crack on the footpath? We deny ourselves a real gift, a treausre.
Try this activity, suggested by John Cage. He asks us to look at something ... simply look.
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
If it is still boring, then eight.
Then sixteen.
Then thirty-two.
Eventually one discovers it is not boring at all."
Today may we discover something beautiful in something mundane.
May its story be revealed to us.