Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
Tags: perception roots nature speech secret secrets trees tree listen attention speaking bark root tree-parable hearing gestures hear paying-attention
I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.
Tawni O'DellTags: mindfulness attention-span paying-attention phones
She said things and I nodded. I didn't pay attention. She didn't pay attention to me. We floated through our days in that way.
Frederick BarthelmeTags: paying-attention taking-others-for-granted
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.”
“Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events.
“So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.”
“Huh?” I say.
Tags: humor communication conversation paying-attention jules delilah-mcphee
They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.
Shannon L. AlderTags: wisdom learning people faith decisions teachers seeing life-lessons choices beliefs socrates helping self-transformation experiences paying-attention kindred-spirits no-coincidences god-s-plan like-minded meeting-people intelligent-people recognizing staircase
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains
Brian AndreasTags: geography secret secrets mountains mountain boundaries river rivers secret-of-life paying-attention no-boundaries personal-boundaries the-biggest-secret jared-wheat
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