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Your evening longread: How to look at your hometown differently
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Look at your hometown differently
We’re all living in smaller worlds right now. Here are some great tips (from pre-pandemic) for noticing the spaces around you in a new way.
(The Guardian, approx 7 mins reading time)
A few suggestions to build your attention muscles in any city, new or familiar, follow. Just remember that real engagement with your environment also means noticing things that are not necessarily charming at all: security cameras, potholes, weeds, ruins, irritating strangers hollering into their phones. But sometimes these deserve attention too. Maybe you’ll notice problems that could be fixed, and have ideas about how that might happen.
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