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Paying Attention to the Click
Nearly every writer, I imagine — maybe we can even dispense with the nearly? — has favorite words. It’s certainly true of me. Some of them are words I just like the sound of. Some of them have meanings...
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Paying Attention to What You Want
From Seems to Fit: “For this one time,” [Bonnie] said aloud, “I want us each to think about the same question, one question, while we do this. We don’t have to say anything out loud, and we don’t have...
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Paying Attention to Continuity Traps
[Found at Basic Instructions] [Warning to those of you who haven't already read chapter 4 ("The Room") in the Propagational Library series: this post contains a spoiler or two.] As you may know, I’m...
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Paying Attention to the Imperceptible
[Video: Loreena McKennitt performs “All Souls Night” live. (Lyrics below.)] From whiskey river: It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes...
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Paying Attention to the Story that Was
[Image: a so-called “space colony” consisting of a pair of O’Neill cylinders, courtesy of the NASA Ames Research Center (via Wikipedia). This image has little to do with the story (or the...
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Stalking the Gaps
[Image: “Mångata,” by Louis Vest on Flickr. (Used here under a Creative Commons license — thank you!) The photographer explains: “Mångata is a Scandanavian word for the path that moonlight makes on...
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Wonder, Where You Find It
[Image: “GRAVES BHAMALA (x2),” by John E. Simpson. When I photographed these bricks, I thought I’d stumbled on some kind of mystery : a reference to a Hindi deity whose name was embossed on building...
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You’ve Got to Blink If You Want to See
[Image: “(Half-)Shoeless in Paradise,” by John E. Simpson. (Shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH). This was #779 (2019-11-14) in my series of 1,000...
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Learning to Fall, Prepared to Fall, But Watching Out for — and Following —...
[Image: “Ever Onward,” by John E. Simpson. Note that this depicts not a single path, but three: there’s the one, the “subject” to the extent that the photo has one, running diagonally...
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How Is It We Are Here, Not There — and for How Long?
[Image: “Work in Progress,” by John E. Simpson.] Now that it is — as they say — That Time of Year, I am looking for, and (even better) easily finding, reasons to smile even as I look out of this...
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