What I found out today. o14o

Today I am discovering new unexpected things. The art of observing and giving attention. It's absolutely beautiful and fascinating. Because you only notice the new within the old only when you let yourself be surprised.



"There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times."
~ Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm (from Into the Wild, p200)

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