What in your ordinary world is quietly asking to be loved by your attention?
Day 14 of Reimagining Aliveness — a daily question for coming back to life.
Mary Oliver once wrote that attention is the beginning of devotion. She spent nearly every morning of her life walking — notebook in her pocket, eyes open. Not to escape the world, but to make full contact with it. She built an entire life’s work out of simply refusing to look away.
Meanwhile, we live inside an economy engineered to harvest our attention — to slice it thin and sell it off before we notice it’s gone. We’ve learned to treat attention as something we spend. Oliver treated it as a form of love. When you truly attend to something — a bird at the feeder, the tree you pass every day, the person across the table — it stops being background. It becomes alive to you, and something in you comes alive in return. The world isn’t withholding wonder. Most days, we’re the ones withholding attention.
Today’s question: What in your ordinary world is quietly asking to be loved by your attention?
Carry it with you today — then come share your answer. The conversation’s happening in the Rebel’s Playground:
👉 https://playground.rebellionreimagined.com
Reimagining Aliveness is a free daily series — one short reflection, one honest question, five days a week — walking the path from coming alive to being alive. New every weekday.
From Gary Lougher, trauma recovery coach and author of the forthcoming book Reimagining Rebellion (2nd Ascent Coaching, LLC).
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