“Aesthetics can be a practice or theory that includes many subjects, such as art, beauty, taste, and perception. Spirituality can be described as a journey of letting go of ego and finding love and joy in every moment. Some say that people with a higher level of spiritual development may have more intense aesthetic experiences…
Tag: Don’t Just Look See
It’s All Relative — But Should It Be? Challenge: Really Look at a Female Cardinal Until You See Her
A couple of days ago, I was sitting in My Morning Chair and watching the array of birds that were dropping in and out of my birdfeeders. They shifted and re-shifted every few seconds, and it seemed that I was looking at my garden through a kaleidoscope. I am rather new to the hobby of…
Looking at January through the Country Diary of Edith Holden – An Edwardian Lady Artist and Illustrator
A Tribute to January and Edith Holden Image Credit: Entertablement Book Cover Image Credit: The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady Image Credit: The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady Page 1 Image Credit: The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady Page 2 Image Credit: The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady Image Credit: Entertablement.com…
How to Create a Garden Journal – More about the Nature Writer Dorothy Wordsworth’s Nature Writing
If you are wondering how to create a garden journal, the most obvious answer is: Write. As usual, however, obvious answers are hardly ever true answers. Many times, they are insults thrust toward what a true answer might be, and while I often tell journalists and writers to do just that — just write! Nature…
Contour Drawing Is A Type of Meditation – It Teaches Us to See in the Moment and Be in the Moment – #Seein23
Learning to actually SEE is vital to becoming an artist and being and also being a writer. Actual SEEING is complex and requires more than looking at something–in the same way that your dog or cat or the birds outside look at something. Even flies look. Don’t Just Look — See! Seeing is a type of looking…
How to Create a Reading Journal on Your Blog – Free Tags for You to Use on Your Blog Posts
In this post, I am showing you how I used my blog to share my #ReadtoWrite journal on my WordPress Blog, using the following free-to-copy and use tags. This charts my reading on December 26, 2022: Pastoral Day – William Hamilton Gibson – pages 19-26. Sharp Eyes: A Rambler’s Calendar – Gibson – pages 248-252….
Sharp Eyes – A Rambler’s Calendar: 52 Weeks Among Insects, Birds, and Flowers – William Hamilton Gibson – 1898
Don’t Just Look — See! April 7 – Quickening Seeds and Seedlings