“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
If you don’t like what you see, try looking at it from a different angle. As a pediatric OT, I am constantly amazed by what children see when they look at ordinary objects. Kids can be amazed by the most simple principles… the expansion of a balloon or sponge, the texture of hair gel, and the construction of a cardboard box.
As a writer, I hope to see the extraordinary in the mundane. I hope to take the familiar and give people a new perspective that changes them or helps them understand why they behave the way that they do.
I see writers as scientists who study and record human experience. I believe that there is something amazingly molecular that occurs when we read books… After just a few minutes of reading, our brain is no longer the same. New connections and rewiring occurs, mirror cells activate, and memories form. (Kandel, “The molecular biology of memory storage: a dialogue between genes and synapses” Science, 2001).
To walk in someone else’s shoes… to see with someone else’s eyes.. Books try to grasp at the impossible- the sharing of phenomenological experience. That is a beautiful thing to see!
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