It was an Anglican Bishop, Frances Atterbury, who said, “It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.” What we see every day may seem ordinary, familiar and even, at times, boring. It is perhaps why we travel to other places to get a different view of something we might regard as
Today, begin noticing your surroundings in some detail, eyes wide open to shapes, colors, designs and little things. Whether you are inside or out of doors will change the view so let’s start with indoors and notice where and how you are sitting. Secondly, if you look straight ahead what do you see? Now look
Easing into the new and unfamiliar is not flipping a switch from off to on or out to in. It is getting used to something gradually, a step at a time, little by little, not all at once like jumping into the deep end where we may be over our heads. Becoming comfortable with something
Alone. By myself. Quiet. These are favorable conditions for exploring the interior life. No distractions, no diversions, no noise and no interruptions. Silence is a welcome change from the ordinary, everyday business of living and working, of being in a family or a community and extracting myself for these brief moments of looking and listening
This phrase, “less is more” appeared in a love poem (line78) in 1855 by Robert Browning , “Andrea del Sarto” called The Faultless Painter. The phrase was adopted by Mies van der Rohe, an architect whom I studied briefly in an undergraduate course called “The House.” He, along with a number of others, including Frank
