A column in the NY TIMES caught my eye last week. Silas House, a writer, describes an encounter with another writer at a workshop and I thought his conclusion could be applied to photography, or any creative endeavor:
I was a young, naïve, foolish writer who was searching for my way. I swallowed hard and asked [ James Still, a novelist and poet] if he had any advice on how to be a better writer. He didn’t answer for a long minute, gazing off at the hills as if ignoring me.
But then he spoke, and I realized that he had taken that moment for quiet thought. “Discover something new every day."
This way of being must be something that we have to turn off instead of actively turn on. It must be the way we live our lives.
