Just a few Simple Noticings on a beautiful late summer Sunday!
Janice's hydrangea against the gray shingles....
...and pearly raindrops puddled here and there.
"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic...the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone." Charles de Lint
Dotty planted a seed a couple of weeks ago in her comment on my "Enough" post about a simple bloom. She called it a Simplicity of Noticings. At first that phrase sounded awkward....but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. Dotty is a student of words. She's a writer and a poet so I pay attention to and sometimes wrestle with her words....especially when she coins a phrase.
Noticing....is a a action. Slowing down and taking the time to really look at the world around us. It's important and often joyful.
Noticings are the products of that effort. A tangible image or even just a brief moment of awe that we can carry in our mind and hearts and sometimes even hold.
So it begins: simple posts every now and then of what I'm going to call Simple Noticings. Of course....I've actually been doing this for years.....but now I have a new name for it.