Noticing

January 9th, 2007

Saturday, Jamie asked us to notice, glean and gather clues for Try Day on CaC. I think I do this all the time as I find it fun and interesting, but the reminder to stop and look is always wonderful, so I took advantage of the suggestion and pulled together a bunch of magazines and catalogues at my disposal, flipped quickly through them and pulled images that caught my eye. I put them aside for a day and then yesterday laid them out on the bed (not my bed, I'm at work 24/7 this week) and looked. I noticed there were a bunch of images of windows and doors. This makes sense to me, thinking of endings and beginnings, being on the verge of change, looking through the window.

Later, looking for a quote regarding how to live with sadness in the world, I didn't find what I was looking for, but did find two passages relating to doors. One being, "The truth is that every fresh experience has this dizziness of freedom that we must move through. Each time we reach beyond what is familiar, there is this necessary acclimation to what is new. It is the doorway to all learning. We needn't be afraid of it or give it too much power. We simply have to keep leaning into what we are learning." - Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening (linked to the left.)

There are other things I've been noticing, but this is enough for now. I will most likely use those images above in a collage. And did you notice my cute new argyle shoes and the kitty sketchbook (a gift from my youngest brother)? Perhaps you'll notice something else in the images above.

2 Responses

Hiya! I’m so glad that you’re participating in Try Day. What a beautiful collection of pictures. When I came here the first thing I did was just spend some time perusing your images without reading your comments. The first thing that was clear to me is that you’re an artist. Then two really intuitive things came to mind, so disregard them if they hold no meaning for you but I thought I’d throw them out there just in case.

One is a question: What do you want more time for? And the other is a sense that you’re coming to a time (Oh, there’s time again) when you want to present yourself differently, where you want to show the world something that you’ve always known about yourself but not everyone sees. Does that make any sense?

I’ll look forward to reading more of your insights :) And I love the quote from The Book of Awakenings. I’m going to have to take a look at that. Oh, and something else I noticed – I have exactly the same cat sketchbook, hehe.

i know i am late, but love the painting below!

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