Things I saw today (aching with ignored beauty)
Sunday, August 30th, 2009via Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish.
at “first glance, it’s a mere collection of ordinary moments – a falling teardrop, an escaped balloon, a dive into a pool – but I think it’s also evidence that the things we see everyday, when carefully framed, can ache with ignored beauty”
-Jonathan Lehrer, about Radiolab’s Moments by Will Hoffman
This reminds me of a beautiful quote about seeing and valuing the little things:
He was aware that common wisdom counseled that love was a malady that blinded lover’s eyes like acid. Love’s skewed sight made hard features appear harmonious, and sinners appear saints, and cowards appear heroes. Clare was by no means an original thinker but on this one point he had recently reached an opposing view: the lovers alone see what is real. When he courted June he thought it a privilege to wash dishes with her in river sand. He thought it a privilege to hold her cutaway coat, to look at Mt. Baker from her side; he thought it a privilege to hear her family stories over tea and watch her eyebrows rise and fall. Now, he knew it was.
– The Living by Annie Dillard