BEING OBSERVANT

    There is a power to being quietly observant. We see things, sense things, and make connections that the unobservant do not. To watch without judgment is to learn what makes people tick, and how they strain and suffer and tangle themselves up in knots, or else to witness with pleasure how someone moves with ease and abandon and carries no stress. We learn a lot by closing our mouths and opening our eyes- a lot about others, and a lot about ourselves as well. We learn from the things that we notice, and from the thoughts in our heads as we look.
    

I take time every day to quiet my mind and observe my surroundings.