attention

phemeral content (Instagram Stories, Snap...) generates heightened emotional intensity precisely because it's meant to vanish. Its fleeting nature amplifies emotional impact. Content shared with a limited group ("close friends") acquires a special, intimate value, reinforcing an implicit bond between sender and recipient. Similarly, exchanging temp... See more

attention can also be understood simply as the name for the contact the mind makes with the world, and, if it is sufficiently attenuated, our capacity and inclination to care, desire, love, and act also suffer.

This form of attention and the knowledge it yields not only elicits more of the world, it elicits more of us. In waiting on the world in this way, applying time and strategic patience in the spirit of invitation, we draw out and are drawn out in turn. As the Latin root of attention suggests, as we extend ourselves into the world by attending to it,... See more