Inquiry and Expansion

“Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.”― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Part of what restricts us seeing things is that we have an expectation about what we will see, and we are actually perceptually restricted by that expectation. In a sense, expectation is the lost cousin of attention: both serve to reduce what we need to process of the world “out there”. Attention is the more charismatic member, packaged and sold more effectively, but expectation is also a crucial part of what we see. Together they allow us to be functional, reducing the sensory chaos of the world into unbothersome and understandable units.”― Alexandra Horowitz, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

Leave space.
A crack.
A sliver.
Let light in.
Surprise.
Mystery and magnification.
Loosening expectations and assumptions.
To allow and invite.
A new angle on the same thing.
Embodiment.
Encounter.
Adventure.
Wonder and awe.

“Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God’s speaking from the whirlwind, nature’s old song, and dance…”― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters