by Kim Ort | Nov 23, 2019 | Contemplation, Habits, Practices, Seeing
”Our perceptual habits, conscious or unconscious, become our reality. Another way to say this is that we tend to see the world as we believe it to be, unless we consciously choose to attend to what we haven’t yet seen, to notice the unexpected elements of the world....
by Kim Ort | Nov 10, 2019 | Attention, Books, Inspiration, Place, Practices
I’d like to introduce you to two of my favourite books of 2019 – The Art of Is: Improvising as a Way of Life (paid link) by Stephen Nachmanovitch and How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (paid link) by Jenny Odell. While these books are similar in...
by Kim Ort | Oct 19, 2019 | Photography
What if noticing perceptions wasn’t about trying to do anything but simply letting go? Usually, I speak about perception as being pre-thought, that is, it precedes the conceptual space of thoughts and ideas. It’s the space where we take in the world...
