Not a confession — a display of the things I actually pay attention to. Each one earns its place.
Forty years in. Still my favourite instrument — the place where thinking and making meet.
Bach flower essences, at professional level. Observation before intervention; attention to how a person holds a state, not just what they report.
One eye filled the day the goal is set; the other when it is met. Perseverance as a craft. (The second eye waits on the thesis.)
The Pacific, the Coast Mountains. Where the work and the life settled.
Garry oak, on Oak Bay — and Acorn Computers / RISC OS. One acorn, two heritages: the place and the machine.
British Columbia's flower. Plants, practically — gardening as an attention practice, not a wellness routine.
Aix-en-Provence, Paris. French food, French osteopathy, and a French taste for the complicated. The useful parts came with me.
The cross of Toulouse — d'or sur gueules. The South, where it started.