Learning to See

In order to make things you need to understand them. In order to understand them, you need to first learn to notice them. You need to see the little details of the stitch on the handbag, or the almost imperceptible swipe animation on the app’s login screen.

I don’t really understand Zen enough to say more than that, but I can tell you something interesting about it:

When I’m practicing regularly I notice that the moments in my life where I can see the pennies increase in frequency.

When I walk around New York, shadows are beautiful. There are hidden delights in the way taxi headlights reflect in a rainbow on rainy asphalt, or the silent hulking grandiosity of the skyscrapers above my head.

I feel like I’m in my life, rather than constantly wishing for what comes next. It’s beautiful, and complicated, and important.