The basic premise was to take a photogrpah everyday that captured a moment as she saw it. It was an expansive process which led her not only to appreciate the small things and be in the present but also to see beuaty in ordinary things, like a stack of chairs. Normally that wouldn't have any great aesthetic beauty but the new way of seeing led her to appreciate this.
I'm looking out at the blue skies with clouds slowing drifting across and, after all the rain and grey we've experienced recently, it is good to stop and appreciate it.
I'm a bit late to take something up for lent but perhaps taking a moment each day to appreciate something beautiful would lead me to be more medative and present in the now (or long now as was the theme at Greenbelt). This morning whilst driving to work, I was struck by how the music on the CD (Ludovico Einaudi's Primavera) perfectly captured the spirit of the countryside around me, I'm trying to hold on to the feeling that evoked it in me so that I'm inspired to do something creative when I get home.
I didn't have any expectations yesterday of discovering something so inspirational but perhaps if we take time to learn to see a little differently it would be a more regular occurence?
The picture below is from a trip to Derbyshire last summer and reminds me of how creative I felt there.
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