Take time to look

Here’s something to do.

Choose something in nature (or from nature) and look at it carefully.

Really carefully.

All of its qualities. All of its details. From every possible angle.

For five minutes. Five full minutes.

Uninterrupted.

Don’t worry. You attend to screens and pages for hours; you won’t miss these five minutes.

But it will feel like a long time.

Because many of us don’t often pause to look — to really look. To establish visual intimacy with an object. To know its physical existence in this world. To appreciate it more fully.

But we could.

Because looking is a skill worthy of continuous development.