> Let’s start by looking at the text in front of us and pointing to something very small: a single word, or punctuation mark, or even something that’s not there, a gap. Tell me, I would ask as we sat down and opened our books, what is one detail that you noticed? What snagged you? Where were you surprised?

It can be marvelous to try notice detail in the world around us. Not only in cultural artifacts, but also in the natural world. Trying to capture that small detail in writing or painting or music composition is a wonderful thing.