tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post116036542073425049..comments2024-02-15T23:41:36.425-08:00Comments on SIMPLY WAIT: LOOK AT ONE OTHER PERSON...REALLY LOOKPatry Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160582617730516702006-10-11T09:03:00.000-07:002006-10-11T09:03:00.000-07:00herhimnbryn: Love the exuberance of your comments....herhimnbryn: Love the exuberance of your comments. Now every time I go out to hang my laundry, I think of you in Australia with your high blue sky and your magpies. <BR/><BR/>K: I love it when that happens!Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160577460713844282006-10-11T07:37:00.000-07:002006-10-11T07:37:00.000-07:00Patry, I began to write a lengthy comment to this ...Patry, I began to write a lengthy comment to this wonderful post and turned it into one of my own posts instead. With a link, of course! Thanks...again. K.Sustenance Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12980573661955592633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160540013903465972006-10-10T21:13:00.000-07:002006-10-10T21:13:00.000-07:00Green eyes, green eyes. You saw her eyes, the beau...Green eyes, green eyes. You saw her eyes, the beauty in that 'hard' face. <BR/>You spent the whole of that trip to the market observing, recalling and noting. You are an inspiration.<BR/>I hope I remember and recall my next trip to buy groceries.herhimnbrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182397064631016552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160539242921829482006-10-10T21:00:00.000-07:002006-10-10T21:00:00.000-07:00tinker: I feel like I'm learning that from my comm...tinker: I feel like I'm learning that from my commenters as well. You have no idea how grateful I am--Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160525813434981692006-10-10T17:16:00.000-07:002006-10-10T17:16:00.000-07:00I was just going to tell you how wonderful this po...I was just going to tell you how wonderful this post is - then I read your comment about "learning to see in compassion," and now I want to tell you how reading all of your posts (and their accompanying comments) is helping me learn how to do that, just a little more everyday. <BR/><BR/>Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160525328996135322006-10-10T17:08:00.000-07:002006-10-10T17:08:00.000-07:00robin: You are so right. We are being affected by ...robin: You are so right. We are being affected by people all the time, and we are affecting others, too--just by the way we walk through this world. Rather a huge responsibility when you think of it. (p.s. You always have a good effect on me, too!)<BR/><BR/>sara: Interesting the way you see it as a visual artist. When I wrote poetry a lot, I went through a wonderful phase when I "saw in poetry". It's hard to explain, but I think you know what I mean. Wherever I went, the world opened up and revealed its hidden poetry. Maybe just as it's possible to see in poetry, or to see in light and lines as an artist, with enough training, one might learn to see in compassion. We can dream, right?Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160511587947301672006-10-10T13:19:00.000-07:002006-10-10T13:19:00.000-07:00I love the title alone. Whether you write about i...I love the title alone. Whether you write about it or not, this is an excellent daily practice, and if you can learn to expand it to more than one person, even better.<BR/><BR/>Visual artists do this all the time, but often we are just looking at light on surfaces, lines, musculature, how things grow and fit together, less at souls, more at shapes, though just as often the one informs the other.<BR/><BR/>In planting the seeds of my own service ethic, a friend of mine -- and I may have quoted her here before, saying this very thing even, but I'm middle-aged and senile, so please forgive me if that's the case -- told me that Ram Dass once said that in order to learn compassion one must first learn to see the "God" in everyone, "God" here meaning that kernel or spark of whatever is divine that is in every living thing. Trying to see what you can see about the truth of lives around you, the part of which being made available to you, a stranger, may not be a story, only a set of emotions, but still very, very real, is another step on that same path, I think.<BR/><BR/>And of course I really like what Pohangina Pete said, too. See how refreshed you feel just taking one long, close look at someone else, even a necessarily veiled look, even from a distance.<BR/><BR/>It's a very, very nice exercise, whether you write about it or not. And yes, you executed it beautifully, as usual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160511234873387252006-10-10T13:13:00.000-07:002006-10-10T13:13:00.000-07:00coll: Thank you for such kind words.colleen: Joe d...coll: Thank you for such kind words.<BR/><BR/>colleen: Joe doesn't sound like the type who wouldn't replace the tp. Backwards still counts!<BR/><BR/>bloglily: Thank you for this--and also for being the starting point in my recent blog game. You have a most interesting blogroll.<BR/><BR/>floots: I tend to find the serious and the engrossing right there in the midst of the trivial. Thank you for looking--and for really seeing.<BR/><BR/>chiefbiscuit: Oh yes, they get dumped in rivers, small ponds, and marshes. I always find something poignant about the sight of them--<BR/><BR/>marilyn: You just made me realize how cheerful Pat had sneaked into the story and become a presence as significant as the woman with the cans. (And I'm sure you don't assume.)<BR/><BR/>neil: I do that, too. But lately, since I've been spending so many hours in my office writing, every outing in the real world feels like a field trip.<BR/><BR/>curmudgeon: I'll have to stop over and check it out!<BR/><BR/>fred: How did you know?<BR/><BR/>pete: I would have thought you frequently suspend assumption when you go out and look at the world with your camera. You always make me see things differently.Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160510952940476542006-10-10T13:09:00.000-07:002006-10-10T13:09:00.000-07:00Thanks for this. Isn't it amazing how someone can ...Thanks for this. Isn't it amazing how someone can affect your life without saying a single word?<BR/><BR/>Then there's you, Patry, who can change my whole day using nothing except words. <BR/><BR/>Okay, and a few choice pictures, but they're just icing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160508288835435602006-10-10T12:24:00.000-07:002006-10-10T12:24:00.000-07:00Yes, I wonder what it would be like to look, not j...Yes, I wonder what it would be like to look, not just at other people, but the world, without assumptions, without preconceptions? I'd like to believe it would appear fresh and raw, but suspect I couldn't make sense of it. So, given our preconceptions colour everything no matter how hard we try, perhaps what's most important is to recognise that and be prepared to discard or modify what we find wrong in ourselves?<BR/><BR/>Wonderful: a vividly drawn and thoughtful post, Patry. As usual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160502247266746202006-10-10T10:44:00.000-07:002006-10-10T10:44:00.000-07:00When you close your eyes can you see her green one...When you close your eyes can you see her green onesFred Garberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06308938520063396329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160500682616319642006-10-10T10:18:00.000-07:002006-10-10T10:18:00.000-07:00Actually, this is responding to the October 5 post...Actually, this is responding to the October 5 post -- I put my response on my site. Hope that's OK with you.The Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723009641287783218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160495997442137302006-10-10T08:59:00.000-07:002006-10-10T08:59:00.000-07:00Wow...this post was something wonderful. I didn't...Wow...this post was something wonderful. I didn't manage to do a post for Sunday Scribblings, but I was dazzled by this one. Here you are again, finding the "humanity" in whatever situation...Left-handed Trees...https://www.blogger.com/profile/06057727021295729384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160494668493160022006-10-10T08:37:00.000-07:002006-10-10T08:37:00.000-07:00The one thing I got out of this post, was how much...The one thing I got out of this post, was how much your learned and gained from just talking and interacting with those around you. Sometimes I have the habit of just walking through my day without noticing anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160484776254568942006-10-10T05:52:00.000-07:002006-10-10T05:52:00.000-07:00I love the peek you gave us into both of those wom...I love the peek you gave us into both of those women's lives...and that you reminded me (since I probably need to be reminded daily) to not assume ANYTHING.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160470904820799472006-10-10T02:01:00.000-07:002006-10-10T02:01:00.000-07:00Great writing - you put me right there with you in...Great writing - you put me right there with you in that supermarket.<BR/><BR/>re the trolley photo: so supermarket trolleys get dumped in rivers, creeks etc in other countries too? And here I was thinking it was just Otago Uni students who did that!Kay Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01791873464409271216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160460630397083032006-10-09T23:10:00.000-07:002006-10-09T23:10:00.000-07:00beautifully put togethertrivial serious and engros...beautifully put together<BR/>trivial serious and engrossing all at the same time<BR/>then that last line which captures the "life goes on" feeling and somehow simultaneously underlines and undercuts what you've told us<BR/><BR/>great stuffflootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01530734765701940680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160456353985907202006-10-09T21:59:00.000-07:002006-10-09T21:59:00.000-07:00"whatever you think you know about me, you're wron..."whatever you think you know about me, you're wrong." What a wonderful line Patry. (I see it's MB's too!) And a lovely piece of writing. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160452594346346892006-10-09T20:56:00.000-07:002006-10-09T20:56:00.000-07:00Amazing how even small daily errands can be an adv...Amazing how even small daily errands can be an adventure with so much to see and learn. <BR/><BR/>I have someone who will change the toilet paper roll, but he does it backwards every time!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160445747401303252006-10-09T19:02:00.000-07:002006-10-09T19:02:00.000-07:00You have such a wonderful way with words and I am ...You have such a wonderful way with words and I am always so impressed with your insightfulness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160440859099670092006-10-09T17:40:00.000-07:002006-10-09T17:40:00.000-07:00Thanks, MB.Lorna: Nefarious--probably, but pretty ...Thanks, MB.<BR/><BR/>Lorna: Nefarious--probably, but pretty much a failure at multi-tasking.Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160440634391413502006-10-09T17:37:00.000-07:002006-10-09T17:37:00.000-07:00you nefarious multi-tasker!you nefarious multi-tasker!Lornahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976144449873569523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160439672388323852006-10-09T17:21:00.000-07:002006-10-09T17:21:00.000-07:00whatever you think you know about me, you're wrong...<I>whatever you think you know about me, you're wrong. </I><BR/>Great post, Patry.MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160437562113354912006-10-09T16:46:00.000-07:002006-10-09T16:46:00.000-07:00Thanks, r. It was Stacey's b-day.Thanks, r. It was Stacey's b-day.Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11695927.post-1160432848225283862006-10-09T15:27:00.000-07:002006-10-09T15:27:00.000-07:00Great post! and I'm not surprised a bit either. Wh...Great post! and I'm not surprised a bit either. Who's Birthday?rdlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04062856086277201874noreply@blogger.com