Grey Matter
Some will have picked up a few of the things that appeal to me about this lady, but they cannot know most of what matters most to me. Hinted at here is one such, her capacity to be thoughtfully interested -- in everything under and behind the sun.
At morning coffee she was looking through a book she had given me for Christmas, a new collection of early Melbourne photographs (the splendid work of an enterprising young man while ‘doing time’ in COVID lockdown). Admittedly I'd been reading on my iPad, but her capacity for absorption was such that she had no idea I had been using its camera to take a shot for just about every page as she leafed through the book. That left me with a daunting selection task...
Grey Matter
Some will have picked up a few of the things that appeal to me about this lady, but they cannot know most of what matters most to me. Hinted at here is one such, her capacity to be thoughtfully interested -- in everything under and behind the sun.
At morning coffee she was looking through a book she had given me for Christmas, a new collection of early Melbourne photographs (the splendid work of an enterprising young man while ‘doing time’ in COVID lockdown). Admittedly I'd been reading on my iPad, but her capacity for absorption was such that she had no idea I had been using its camera to take a shot for just about every page as she leafed through the book. That left me with a daunting selection task...