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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Ears
August 16, 2023
From Kevin Kling’s Love Show 2017
They taught me that no one is capable of love — so why bother with it.
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Conscientious Observer
September 7, 2023
Nectar
Buying these products in Portland is like meeting your pharmacist at the jewelry store.
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Eyes
August 16, 2023
Words for John Prine
Even though I’ve practiced the art of storytelling for decades, and at times made a decent living at it, I was much older than you’d think when I began to contemplate and understand the process of creativity, of the relationship between story and audience, of dramatic and emotional journeys, of character and catharsis and destiny. And of telling the truth.
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