On Thursday I’ll be interviewing Rob Walker about The Art of Noticing. Follow me on Instagram to get notified when we’re live: @austinkleon (You can watch the talk here.)
On Thursday I’ll be interviewing Rob Walker about The Art of Noticing. Follow me on Instagram to get notified when we’re live: @austinkleon (You can watch the talk here.)
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I made this blackout last week and put it at the top of Friday’s newsletter about getting in and out of trouble. Unfortunately, it was prophetic, because I was up at 4 a.m. this morning…
Friday’s newsletter was inspired by our recent trip to New Mexico.
It ended on this note about travel:
I am a big believer that travel doesn’t relieve your problems, it throws them into relief. You see your life in a new light and new shadows. The desert light can be good for this. At its peak, it is harsh and unforgiving, but at dusk and dawn it softens, becomes more mysterious. Every trip has its challenges, but I returned home, as I often do, with a sense of perspective and a clarity about what I want to do next. What more could one ask for? (“Go away so you can come back.”)
What I liked most about New Mexico was being in the forests and the deserts outside of town.
In Benjamin Labatut’s The Maniac, a fictional Richard Feynman says:
Los Alamos was high up on a mesa with tall cliffs carved in dark red earth, lots of trees and shrubs all around. The landscape was breathtaking, the most beautiful place I’d ever seen. Coming from New York, I’d never traveled out to the West before, so I really felt like I was in another world. In Mars or something. It had the strange energy of a sacred space, a haven far away from the civilized world, away from prying eyes, farther than God could see. The perfect spot to do the unimaginable.
Read more in “The Land of Enchantment.”
Friday’s newsletter was inspired by this vintage stamp carousel that Meghan got me for my birthday:
I didn’t even know such a thing existed, but I’m told they used to be pretty common in offices. I’ve been spinning it here on my desk, thinking about circular time, nostalgia, volvelles, and Fortuna’s wheel. All the things that go round and round. (Just this morning I was reading The Idler and learned about prayer wheels.)
Read the rest here.
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