Seeing #2 - This is why I blog

“Seeing of course is very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes I simply won’t see it. It is as Ruskin says, ‘not merely unnoticed, but in the full, clear sense of the word, unseen.’ My eyes alone can’t solve elaborations…I have to say the words, describe what I’m seeing...if I want to notice the lesser cataclysms of valley life, I have to maintain in my head a running description of the present. It’s not that I’m observant; it’s just that I talk too much. Otherwise, especially in a strange place, I’ll never know what’s happening. Like a blind man at the ball game, I need a radio.” - Annie Dillard (Pilgram At Tinker Creek)