Something that writing and art-making has taught me is that I love living in moments and memories. I love staying awake to the things happening around me. To really look and see. To really listen and hear.
It’s the reason I love memoirs and vignettes. The reason that I love Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The reason I love slogging along the sand for hours to stare at the sea and capture the sound of it.
I like them because I like feeling things, and for reasons I’ll write about later my brain is wired to feel emotions much more suddenly and strongly than most other people. They take over me, briefly.
There’s something so wonderful about giving a brief—sometimes seemingly mundane—moment an internal standing ovation. To feel blessed to just exist in that moment and experience it. I love it.
I’m going to steer my art and writing more and more in this direction and see where it leads. I’ll sit with things a little longer. Look a bit more closely. Listen a little harder. Live for moments and memories.