Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Pico Iyer’s “Aflame: Learning from Silence” (2025)
“The point of being here is not to get anything done; only to see what might be worth doing” (16). “There’s no such thing as dead time when everything is alive with possibility” (24). “It’s never possibility that’s not present; only me” (27). “When one keeps quiet, the situation becomes clear” (62). “Leisure is where Continue reading
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On Writing Tools
• iA Writer. For everyday writing I use iA Writer, an app for Mac OS and iOS. The app is quite expensive, and you need to purchase one version for the phone and another for the computer, but it’s well worth it. iA Writer looks pleasingly minimal and cloud syncs perfectly across devices, so if Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kathy Willis’s “Good Nature” (2024)
“Our eyes also appear to seek out patterns with a mid-level of fractal complexity .22 Why is this significant? Because evidence suggests that when we view silhouette outlines of natural scenes with this fractal dimension, it triggers greater levels of calming and attention restoration than when we look at the outline shape of other landscape Continue reading
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