What do you notice?
This question is essential and enough.
If you’d like to connect beyond the surface of a moment—to experience delight of reciprocal aliveness, curiosity, play, awe—the only necessary action is to notice.
Maybe the moment is with a bird, a child poking in some dirt, your family having dinner, an ache in your knee, memory of your great-grandmother, tug of longing in your heart.
Whatever it is, wherever you are, stay with your noticing. The time doesn’t need to be long (remember, slow is space).
Stay is sustained attention. Stay is listening. Stay is presence without naming, explaining, or making sense. Stay is tender, whole, raw, and true.
Your attention to stay with the moment—notice what it is—opens you to connect with the aliveness beyond the moment.
The magic of wonder, awe, and surprise will emerge and play when you let yourself stay.
You don’t get here by yourself.
Delight is reciprocal.
It will find you and invite you to PLAY when you trust that noticing is enough.
There’s no wrong way to try this… it’s possible in any moment of your day.
I wish you endless ordinary delight in noticing!
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Love, Melissa
Additional resources:
The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects by Lyall Watson
The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet by Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake
Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression by Mark Nepo
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner
Look at What the Light Did Now by Little Wings (song)
Button Snail Hum is a pollination project of Noticing Matters.
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