{"id":1196,"date":"2015-06-18T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T17:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2015-06-18T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T17:32:55","slug":"staying-in-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"staying in touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">playfull times: warriors, every one<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BW-Games-tribe-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1198 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BW-Games-tribe-crop-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"B&amp;W Games tribe (crop)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BW-Games-tribe-crop-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BW-Games-tribe-crop-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BW-Games-tribe-crop.jpg 1587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>many moons ago Ursula &amp; I held a non-competitive games afternoon at <em>Friend&#8217;s Meeting House<\/em>:<br \/>\nIt was a wonderful exploratory investigation of co-operation, rather than competition, &amp; of<br \/>\nplayfulness; challenging in ways different from going all out to win over somebody else &#8211;<br \/>\nwe fostered working together:- and this tribe were <strong>inspiringly<\/strong> up for it. . .<br \/>\nthe tribe look so young &#8211; we were!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cherish4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cherish4-999x1024.jpg\" alt=\"cherish4\" width=\"643\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cherish4-999x1024.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cherish4-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cherish4.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">as one of <em>The Minimalists<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theminimalists.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"st\">Joshua Fields Millburn<\/span><\/a> says<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/love-people2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/love-people2-1024x245.jpg\" alt=\"love people2\" width=\"593\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/love-people2-1024x245.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/love-people2-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/love-people2.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Knowle Rocks:<\/em> appreciating what&#8217;s around us, deep in urban South Bristol<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/KnowleRocks-BW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/KnowleRocks-BW-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"KnowleRocks B&amp;W\" width=\"854\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/KnowleRocks-BW-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/KnowleRocks-BW-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/KnowleRocks-BW.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0noticing how the meaning of phrases changes over time<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;art appreciation&#8217; used to mean\u00a0<span class=\"st\">understanding, studying<\/span> &amp; admiring (<span class=\"st\">visual) <em>art<\/em> forms,<br \/>\ntheir cultural connections and contexts<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it may now signify something quite different, some would say diametrically opposed:<br \/>\nthe pertinent point being rather, &#8216;<em>will this work appreciate in monetary value&#8217;<\/em> for example<br \/>\n*****\u00a0 intrinsic <em>vs<\/em> extrinsic values\u00a0 ****<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">************************<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">and now for some artists I really appreciate, &amp; value!<br \/>\ngorgeous creative people, I&#8217;d like to introduce you to &#8211;<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isabelmoseley.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel Moseley<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 a young woman I met in Venice on our artists&#8217; residencies:<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s an adventurous explorer of space and time, bookarts, and more&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tobythompson.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toby Thompson<\/a><\/strong> old soul friend, magician of the spoken word &amp; performance poet:<br \/>\nan unreasonable young man<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">think that&#8217;s all for now&#8230;.&#8217;til <em>we post again<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"> don&#8217;t know where (!) don&#8217;t know when&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>playfull times: warriors, every one many moons ago Ursula &amp; I held a non-competitive games afternoon at Friend&#8217;s Meeting House: It was a wonderful exploratory investigation of co-operation, rather than&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1196\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">staying in touch<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":2,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,177,180,186,181,176,179,185,175,183,187,174,178,182,184],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-art","tag-cherishing-people-experiences","tag-creative-people","tag-friends","tag-isabel-moseley","tag-joshua-fields-millburn","tag-knowle","tag-m-scott-peck","tag-minimalism","tag-non-competitive-games","tag-performance-poet","tag-playfull","tag-suffering","tag-toby-thompson","tag-venice","excerpt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}