All around us is a world in constant
communication.
We can understand this notion when it comes to TV, radio and
Wi-Fi, as we swim through an ocean of energy waves.
But at more subtle and
profound levels, we are in what the French poet Baudelaire described as
‘correspondence’ with all kinds of impressions and sensations within our
environment.
These ‘conversations’ speak to us in many ways, affecting us
literally and symbolically, as we respond to a bewildering array of stimuli
that talks to our body, heart, mind and spirit.
Reading the worlds
around us can help us to become open to ideas, to different perspectives that
can enliven our writing.
Listening to life in its many voices, colours and
textures, in its diverse shapes and forms, can educate our creativity in new
languages of self-expression.
