Hi there,
I hope you have enjoyed these New Year holiday prompts.
For me, this time of year should be a time of renewal. Many of us will have been lucky to have had some kind of a break, even if has just been a few public holidays over Christmas and New Years Day. We have put the old year to bed and are making plans for the new one.
Today’s creative prompt came from a quote from Cesare Pavese:
“Every morning,
I will go out on the streets
Looking for colours.”
Learning to pay attention – to observe and notice and be taken with things in the world – is a part of cultivating a creative mindset. And noticing things that you mightn’t have noticed before, or looking at them in a different way, or noticing that which no one else is paying attention to, invites you to look at the world with fresh eyes.
So as an exercise in paying attention…
… and finding “the dearest freshness deep down things”* I invite you to look for colours the next time you leave the house.
As you walk past the things you have walked past a hundred times before on the way to the bus or the supermarket, ask yourself to notice the colours, the sheen, the tones, the visual textures of the things around you in loving detail and with fresh eyes.
*A line from a poem by one of my very favourite poets, Gerard Manly Hopkins.
This was the last of the holiday prompts. I hope you enjoyed them.
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