Noticing Matters

Noticing Matters

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Let's play! (part 3)

Let's play! (part 3)

Third in a series of four posts on noticing objects as a pathway for delight, creative expression, and more

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Melissa A. Butler
May 20, 2022
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Into (somewhere else)

To go into an object, a poem, a touch, a dream, a glimpse, a breath… is always perfectly what it is meant to be.

It’s not a novel practice, to let yourself go into, or inside, what you are wondering about, writing, or otherwise exploring. I know many writers who “become” their characters to better understand them or poets who feel th…

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