I tell the six year olds that if they want to have great lives, they need to read a lot or listen to the written word. If they rely only on their own thinking, they will not notice the power that is all around them, the force-be-with-you kind of power.*
Annie Dillard

Pay close, foolish, even absurd attention to things.**
Ian Bogost

He was ten or eleven,
A “smart-mouth” who thought
he knew it all;
I can only hope that,
Sooner rather than later –
And way sooner than I did –
He will discover the wonders
that are all around him,
Not only in people but
in all things, leading to
curiosity and observation and widening the search and
reflection and making something that is quite
ingenious.

*Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything;
**Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing.