# created ```dataview LIST WITHOUT ID file.link FROM -"windsurf" WHERE file.cday = date(this.file.name) AND !startswith(file.folder, "windsurf") SORT file.cday ASC ``` # modified ```dataview LIST WITHOUT ID file.link FROM -"windsurf" WHERE file.mday = date(this.file.name) AND !startswith(file.folder, "windsurf") SORT file.mday ASC ``` --- # [[diary and thoughts]] #thought #diary --- # Ans' Meeting - she wants to show us something from a show she has been working on - mountain film she has done two trips - attention and learning, it doesn't matter [[what you]] learn - a good way to use attention is to consider your mistakes (?) - 'The negative space of these images'. > "Attention is an effort, the greatest of all efforts perhaps, but it is a negative effort" > > I imagine her spending hours, possibly days, writing lengthy works in a trance. Looking at the impressive body of work Simone Weil produced in her short life, I have ascribed to her a focused mind. Today, she would probably be diagnosed with autism, bipolar disorder, and high ability, partly explaining her exceptional heritage. Never mind her keen focus, for Weil "the development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies." She must have meant another kind of attention than the lucrative and distracting attention companies seek today. Also doomscrolling implies durational, absorbed attention. But this kind of attention has nothing to do with the acquired attentional capacity through study, which Weil connects to a spiritual connection with God in prayer. Attention for Weil is not a muscle to train, but a 'negative effort" - selfless, receptive, and active. - the testing of the flute in the environment = bringing reverb which is normally on the periphery of attention - portraiture > The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers" attributed to **Thich Nht Hanh**, the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk and peace activist - fragments of people, moments. - nice contrast with what i consider the portraiture of reel reel double time - maybe we didn't get anything about those people's home lives, but i still learn about how they are. ## now Esther speaks - the portraiture stuff - resonance things binding together - attention literature - [[sebastian watzl]] - i'd like her to develop her own ideas about