Daily Nourishment for October 2, 2024: Voyage of Discovery
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 45 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” - Marcel Proust
Pause.
Take a few quiet minutes to view last year’s winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Prompt.
Use the photo below or a different photo using the link above and make three lists:
Ten things you see in the photo
Five ideas/thoughts that come to mind that may or may not be related to the photo
Five people who might appreciate seeing this photo
Owls' road house. Hof HaSharon, Israel. The photographer snapped this shot of several barn owls in the window of an abandoned building, using long exposure times to capture the light of passing traffic. Carmel Bechler/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Practice.
Set a timer for seven minutes and begin writing a new work of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or a letter to a friend in response to a question below:
What events have unfolded in this building over the years?
When did the owls arrive and where will they go?
Someone is walking toward this building. What will happen next?
“I feel that I have been more deeply-moved by music, literature, sculpture, panting than I have by photography, — that is by the other workers in my own medium. This needs explanation. I am not moved to emulate, — neither to compete with or imitate, these other creative expressions, but seeing, hearing, reading something fine excites me to greater effort, — (“inspires” is just the word, but how it has been abused!). Reading about Stieglitz, for instance, means more to me than seeing his work. Kandinsky, Brancusi, Van Gogh, El Greco, have given me fresh impetus: and of late Keyserling, Spengler, Melville, (catholic taste!) in literature. I never hear Bach without deep enrichment, — I almost feel he has been my greatest ‘influence.’ It is as though, in taking to me these great conceptions of other workers, the fallow soil in my depths, emotionally stirred, receptive, has been fertilized.”
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