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#payingattention — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #payingattention, aggregated by home.social.

  1. A quotation from Thoreau

    Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #waldenpond #awakened #awakening #awareness #beingawake #day #illumination #payingattention

  2. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as “and they can deliver it tomorrow” or “so I’ve invited them for dinner” or “they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld Series No. 24, The Fifth Elephant (1999)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/7829…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #attention #dialog #distraction #husband #listening #marriage #payingattention #wife #conversation #communication

  3. 🚀 #Finland bravely ventures where parents fear to tread: banning smartphones in #schools to finally stop Generation Z from TikToking their way through algebra! 📱🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, Finnish students start studying the ancient art of... paying attention. 😂 #BackToTheStoneAge
    yle.fi/a/74-20158886 #SmartphoneBan #GenerationZ #PayingAttention #TikTok #HackerNews #ngated

  4. “Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice.’
    -Kurt Vonnegut

    🌱Joyous Earth Day! 🌎🍃
    #EarthDay #gardens #FlowerPhotography #flowers #BloomScrolling #MyJoyfulPlace #butterfies #bees #birds #PayingAttention

  5. 🧐 Expounding on the theme of #PayingAttention, I've also noticed a proliferation of "journalistic slop" due, perhaps in large part, to #corporatized/billionaire-captured #newspapers which have made it increasingly difficult for us in #public to curate sources of #reliable #journalism. But this phenomenon with #news, reporting & commentaries is, sadly, entirely human-generated - just like genocide, racism, nuclear weapons, kids with guns, addictive drugs, corruption etc.

    social.freedom.press/@freedomo

  6. 2/2
    ⚠️"For the first time in #human history, the ability to produce #writing, art & expression has been decoupled from the necessity of actually #payingattention to what you’re making or saying.. unless people become much better at #curation, #greatwork will be increasingly difficult to locate amid the flood of #loweffort #content, which is also known as “ #AIslop”.. when it comes to #art, #expression & argument, if you want it done right, it’s probably still best to do it yourself"
    #PayAttention

  7. “And speaking of stones, what about
    The little ones you can
    Hold in your hands, their heartbeats
    So secret, so hidden it may take years
    Before, finally, you hear them?”

    -Mary Oliver

    #poetry #rocks #Naturephotography #MaryOliver #shells #PayingAttention #hearts

  8. Autumn is in the breeze today, some of the garden’s flowers are beginning to quiet down…but the fading petals of the Echinaceas still enchant….

    #BloomScrolling #NewWaysOfLooking #gardens #UrbanGardens #MyJoyfulPlace #FlowerPhotography #payingattention

  9. Good morning, friends. 💮🐦💮

    7 August 2024

    Well, my fence is clean, today somebody is coming to repair the door on my small garage where I keep my lawn mower, motorcycle, tools, yada yada yada, and there is some storage. The repair of the garage is a self-created expanse, I ran into the bottom of the door with the Topp of my rollbar while backing my lawn mower into the garage. It misaligned the bottom rollers and gaggled up the cables on both sides, so I had to loosed both roller wheels, which took the tension out of the tension-spring. Messing with the tension-spring is not something that I want to do - it can be dangerous. So, I'm paying for my lack of attention.

    "The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way." - Keanu Reeves

    #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #BlueGrayGnatcatcher #PayingAttention

  10. 🌿Happy 🧡 Day🍃

    The workshop/home of Portuguese sculptor José de Oliveria Ferreira.
    -photo via studio magGA

    #ValentineDay #heart #art #sculpture #poetry #architecture #Portugal #joy #PayingAttention

  11. And taken this morning…the same zinnia as in previous post, fading to powder-pink…brushed by silky, silvery-rose grass plumes.
    Paying attention to a single flower can bring such wonder.

    #BloomScrolling #PayingAttention #flowers #gardens #ColorEchoes #wondrous

  12. Late afternoon and then early evening… watching a duo of delicious Moonflowers unveil their beauty and fragrance…swoon.

    #fragrance #Moonflower #gardening #Bloomscrolling #FlowerPhotography #PayingAttention #MyJoyfulPlace

    EDIT: Oops, sorry…forgot to add alt text. Fixed it.

  13. Feeling the warm Italian air…and the dry crunchy soil as it exhales the aroma of olive tree leaves as I walk.
    And the tree trunk, that trunk…twisting, gnarled wood…the swirl and story of ages and ages.
    I lay my hands on it and breathe in…and then breathe out.

    #ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #olives #Italy #wondrous #LandscapePhotography #Umbria #sunlight #PayingAttention #breathe

  14. As I await tulips to begin blooming, here’s from a past spring,
    Euphorbia characias and Tulip ‘Bastogne.’

    The color echoes were not planned…rather, they were another gift from the garden🌿

    #gardening #garden #GrowingThings #surprise #echo #GardenGift #FlowerPhotography #flowers #bulbs #PayingAttention #spring

  15. As I await tulips to begin blooming, here’s from a past spring,
    Euphorbia characias and Tulip ‘Bastogne.’

    The color echoes were not planned…rather, they were another gift from the garden🌿

    #gardening #garden #GrowingThings #surprise #echo #GardenGift #FlowerPhotography #flowers #bulbs #PayingAttention #spring

  16. As I await tulips to begin blooming, here’s from a past spring,
    Euphorbia characias and Tulip ‘Bastogne.’

    The color echoes were not planned…rather, they were another gift from the garden🌿

    #gardening #garden #GrowingThings #surprise #echo #GardenGift #FlowerPhotography #flowers #bulbs #PayingAttention #spring

  17. As I await tulips to begin blooming, here’s from a past spring,
    Euphorbia characias and Tulip ‘Bastogne.’

    The color echoes were not planned…rather, they were another gift from the garden🌿

    #gardening #garden #GrowingThings #surprise #echo #GardenGift #FlowerPhotography #flowers #bulbs #PayingAttention #spring

  18. As I await tulips to begin blooming, here’s from a past spring,
    Euphorbia characias and Tulip ‘Bastogne.’

    The color echoes were not planned…rather, they were another gift from the garden🌿

    #gardening #garden #GrowingThings #surprise #echo #GardenGift #FlowerPhotography #flowers #bulbs #PayingAttention #spring

  19. "There was an ancient civilization that could speak Tree.
    They could understand the language of roots and the noise of fungi, a highly developed tongue, difficult to translate. They refused to write down the sounds because they could hear the molecules of the papyrus crying.”

    -From Heather Altfelt’s, “Every Day Another Language Dies"
    lithub.com/every-day-another-l

    #language #history #words #loss #trees #StormKing #LandscapePhotography #PayingAttention

  20. Among other things, I collect color names.

    Coquelicot is a shade of red.
    The term was originally a French vernacular name for the wild corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas, and is distinguished by its bright red color and orange tint.
    It eventually passed into English usage as the name of a color based upon that of the flower.
    The first recorded use of this usage was in the year 1795.

    #flowers #color #language #FlowerPhotography #poppies #gardens #NewWords #delight #nuance #PayingAttention

  21. Went down a bit of a rabbit hole when I posted my Rembrandt tulip photo today. If you want to learn more, this is an illuminating blog:
    tulipsinthewoods.com/bulbs/ins

    And if you want to add some of these lovely heirloom bulbs to your garden, this is a wonderful source of antique bulb varieties:
    oldhousegardens.com/store/cate

    #JanuaryJoy #tulips #gardening #HeirloomPlants #flowers #payingattention

    Pictured is a variety on my wishlist, and a photo from the bountiful Pike Place Market in Seattle WA