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Noticing Strangers
Sonder. You are the main character—the protagonist—the star at the center of your own unfolding story. You’re surrounded by your supporting cast: friends and family hanging in your immediate orbit. Scattered a little further out, a network of acquaintances who drift in and out of contact over
Wabi-Sabi in Photography
Wabi-sabi is a giant marketing effort that urges us to take a second look at what we might otherwise dismiss or treat with disdain.
How Is Your Heart?
Rumi once said that our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within that we have built against it.
We Are All Extras
Last weekend I was at an inspiring event about mindfulness in schools with Jon Kabat-Zinn. I was struck by his opening words: “The mind that thinks it knows a lot is a prison.”
Aimless Love
A poem by Billy Collins. This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day with a mouse the cat had dropped under the dining room table. In the shadows of an autumn evening, I fell for a seamstress still
Is it a Horse or a Unicorn?
The Greek have two distinct words for “blue” while in English we just have the one, and so it correlates that the Greek have a more nuanced sense of this colour.
Wabi-Sabi State of Mind
Welcome to the first-ever Just Looking letter! My name is Menka, and I'll be your guide to noticing more.
What Do We Find Beautiful?
A list of answers. Whether beauty is an objective or subjective reality is one of most controversial themes in the history of art and culture. Is beauty a special and measurable quality “out there”, or simply a twinkle in the “eye of the beholder”? Perhaps what we can all agree
Making Strangers With the World
The question I’m holding is how can we stop switching off automatically from everyday familiar contexts? How can we blaze our world up again?
The Man Who Pointed His Camera At Nothing For 100 Hours
For 10 full days, the Hubble was pointed to a patch of sky that Williams himself described as “indistinguishable spot in the sky”. It was a small keyhole perspective, only about 1/30th as wide as the full moon.
