your daily rock : start seeing more

February 3, 2014 in Daily Rock, General

We don’t really see what we are looking at.

We assign a value, a name, a “brand,” a representation of an idea to what we are looking at, an interpretation of it–but do we see it?

We don’t.

We see our idea of it. The part that has been named: “A chair.” “A yellow pencil.”

But as an artist friend used to tell me, “what we call a yellow pencil is made up of not only the color yellow, but shades of blue and pink and much more.

Today, see more. And regain the capacity to see what is in front of you, not what merely exists in your head.

Seeing is a contact sport.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.