The Art of Noticing

Today while you are reading this post I will be giving a workshop to 60 teachers. It is a group of teachers I gave a workshop to last year. So they have heard my STILL story once already. Tomorrow’s workshop will be about the Art of Noticing. The Art of Noticing is the subtitle of my forthcoming book. It is tricky business to try and teach someone how to “see” and even harder yet, to challenge them to “re-see” the ordinary things in their life to which they have become habituated. But that is my goal tomorrow. Every day for the last 11-plus years I have walked to the same five trails around my home. And each day I need to find a new STILL subject to photograph. So I have developed some tricks that help me focus my attention so that I can see anew these familiar trails. This will be the first time I am teaching this particular workshop. Wish me luck. I hope it lands.

swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)