Look up.
What changes when you lift your eyes above street level? Find one detail that seems to have been waiting for you.
OBSERVE / 5 MINTHE KEEPING PLACE
A cabinet of
curiosities.
A few prompts to open a door when the page feels blank. Take one, change it, or ignore it and follow your own question.
A familiar sound.
Write down a sound that makes a place feel like itself. What does it tell you before you even look around?
REMEMBER / 8 MINOrdinary magic.
Choose the most-used object within reach. What traces of its life can you read in its scratches, folds, or worn edges?
EXAMINE / 6 MINWhat if?
Write a question you don’t need to answer today. Give it enough space to become more interesting than its first version.
WONDER / 3 MINA REMINDER
“The note doesn’t have to be important.
It only has to be noticed.”