I forgot, I meant to post things that didn't quite make it into the Do Interesting book. Here's a lovely example. via robertogreco
“Her house is a place where I am learning to look at things, where I am learning how to belong in space. In rooms full of objects, crowded with things, I am learning to recognize myself. She hands me a mirror, showing me how to look. The color of wine she has made in my cup, the beauty of the everyday. Surrounded by fields of tobacco, the leaves braided like hair, dried and hung, circles and circles of smoke fill the air. We string red peppers fiery hot, with thread that will not be seen. They will hang in front of a lace curtain to catch the sun. Look, she tells me, what the light does to color!”
—bell hooks, describing her grandmother’s house, as quoted by Elleza Kelley in her review of Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes