Newsletters
Portrait of a Tree
How are feeling right now? Perhaps it’s a good time to pause and take three deep breaths. At your own pace. Nowhere to go, nothing to achieve. Give yourself the gift of being fully present and resting right here. Suffering has a way of reminding us of what matters
What the Happiest Man In The World Sees
Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking: “May I suffer the whole day”. As the French philosopher, Pascal said, even the man who hangs himself is looking for a cessation of suffering.
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
