"As you wander round the gallery, you may also ask yourself "Is this art?" and that's a good thing.” - this definitely was a great reflection for me to engage with is I think about my more darker poetry
I also loved:
“Curious people are among the happiest because they know there is always something interesting to notice, which gives them something to look forward to no matter where they are. They seek mystery in the everyday. You can too.” I love how reading another's work, prompts you to remember things about your own. You feel a sense of empowerment where what you need, is reflected back to you through another's words.
This is a theme I discuss a lot in my poetry, curiosity instead of judgement, I’d be interested to hear, what has a curious mind helped you with in your own life?
Up for some darker poetry. Anything specific you can point me to?
Curiosity feels like my engine at this point. It makes me feel quite self-sufficient (a good thing, in balance) and emboldens my spirit because I have this deep personal relationship with the things I am drawn to.
For all the anxiety I might feel about later life – fleeting opportunities for time with people I care about, for instance – or the sadness that lingers in place of departed family – focusing on the wonder around me is revitalising.
It might come from staring at the brush strokes of a portrait that looks ancient yet familiar. Listening to the way someone sustains a note and bends it on their guitar, which really deviates from the recorded version and you're thinking … what made them play it that way? Asking where an actor goes at a critical moment in a scene, their face almost transforming into a second character.
Endless ways to feel more present in the moment and and alive to the world, even when we are in receipt of the gifts of others instead of being the maker or provider.
The two that stood out for me:
Lucas’s Happy Gas Show, the reminder that...
"As you wander round the gallery, you may also ask yourself "Is this art?" and that's a good thing.” - this definitely was a great reflection for me to engage with is I think about my more darker poetry
I also loved:
“Curious people are among the happiest because they know there is always something interesting to notice, which gives them something to look forward to no matter where they are. They seek mystery in the everyday. You can too.” I love how reading another's work, prompts you to remember things about your own. You feel a sense of empowerment where what you need, is reflected back to you through another's words.
This is a theme I discuss a lot in my poetry, curiosity instead of judgement, I’d be interested to hear, what has a curious mind helped you with in your own life?
Up for some darker poetry. Anything specific you can point me to?
Curiosity feels like my engine at this point. It makes me feel quite self-sufficient (a good thing, in balance) and emboldens my spirit because I have this deep personal relationship with the things I am drawn to.
For all the anxiety I might feel about later life – fleeting opportunities for time with people I care about, for instance – or the sadness that lingers in place of departed family – focusing on the wonder around me is revitalising.
It might come from staring at the brush strokes of a portrait that looks ancient yet familiar. Listening to the way someone sustains a note and bends it on their guitar, which really deviates from the recorded version and you're thinking … what made them play it that way? Asking where an actor goes at a critical moment in a scene, their face almost transforming into a second character.
Endless ways to feel more present in the moment and and alive to the world, even when we are in receipt of the gifts of others instead of being the maker or provider.