I always think it is amazing when people do their observation on the everyday lives and the seemingly mundane things. For a "Material Culture" class that I took, I did a research on the cositas (small items) in people's offices at the UW campus. Other people look at bedtime stories and children books. My professor assigns Dr. Seuss's the Lorax in her reading list. I read a book on the philosophy of chairs, which was really cool because before, I rarely thought about this thing I'm sitting on right now.
Mary Catherine Bateson in Composing a Life says that "Quite ordinary daily experience may contain within it a multiplicity of vision that proposes the willingness to question what has been taken for granted"(p. 53). Her words stay in me, making me eager to stop and look at how we live, and then walk, and stop again and look. Everyday experiences make me realize that this world is a beauty of chaos. People, animals, plants, water, air and other elements move, interact, collide.
So make sure you know what time the sun rises tomorrow morning.
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