Conscientious Observers is a project from long-time friends and collaborators, Jim Stanger and Ali Selim. A meditation on the ingredients of living, we remind ourselves to look, listen, snap, type, and share with no specific intent other than to change the world for the better. If you are curious and have reflections of your own that you consider share-worthy, send them to us. We would love to include them. Or, if they are better than our observations, we will steal them. Or ignore them altogether.
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Eyes
August 12, 2026
The taste of chewed Emmental cheese on someone else’s tongue
The summer I turned 16, my parents drove me from Minneapolis to O’Hare Airport to help me board a flight, by myself, bound for Luxembourg.
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Ears
August 12, 2026
Whoops-A-Daisy!
My daughter daughtersplained to me how 23 and Me works.
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Ears
August 12, 2026
This Is Not My Story To Tell
This is not my story to tell. This story belongs to my friend, Renee. But she'll never know I stole it for you.
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