Reflections

Reflections are the more immediate pieces: responses, reactions, takes, and small records of attention. They usually begin with something specific—a book, an article, a song, a line of dialogue, a family moment, a cultural irritation, an object on the table, a thought that arrives and refuses to leave.

They may still think hard. They may still wander into larger questions. But, they are less interested in building an argument than in staying close to the occasion that started them. A Reflection doesn’t need to prove a whole theory of the world. It just needs to notice something clearly enough that the noticing becomes worth keeping.

If Explorations are where I test an idea, Reflections are where I register an encounter.