Looking Closely is Everything

An Essay by Craig Mod
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Kambara, detail by detail.

I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh is to get good at both paying attention and nurturing compassion; if you don’t notice, you can’t give a shit. But the huh is only half the equation. You gotta go huh, alright — the “alright,” the follow-up, the openness to what comes next is where the cascade lives. It’s the sometimes-sardonic, sometimes-optimistic engine driving the next huh and so on and so forth.

  1. ​A little dose of time travel​
  1. ​Pointing at things​
  2. ​One brick​
  3. ​I recommend eating chips​
  4. ​Haven't you noticed?​
  5. ​The Student, The Fish, and Agassiz​
  1. A little dose of time travel

    What’s wild about focused attention is that the act of observation is implicitly timeless. A little dose of time travel. To look closely you must be present. And the more present you are, the more you move outside the boundaries of time.