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The Art of Kilo⤴

Autumn Leaves flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says

Write Out recently a workshop by teachers who use a traditional Hawaiian observation practice called Kilo alongside their students.

What are your observation super-powers? Or which ones do you tap into most to support your writing?

Learn more about Kilo

The one I use most is sight, and my camera is my superpowe – I often use it to help me to focus on details of my surroundings. On Saturday, as we were out at a nature reserve watching a heron, I saw how the zoom was catching the colours of this beech tree, with a seed head looking like a butterfly skeleton at the bottom right hand of the image.

Nature is beautiful in every season. Today, as I have a day off, I will head outside in the crisp autumn sun and plant some bulbs. Aloha!

Autumn Kigo⤴

from NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to make some autumn kigo. I really wanted to get out my pencils and crayons for this one, but I am trying to compress a day’s work into a morning so that I can enjoy the Reclaim conference this afternoon, so I quickly grabbed one of my recent pics of autumn leaves and used LunaPic to add some filters to it. I then dumped these into powerpoint, screenshot the slide and uploaded it to Flickr. Then I used Alan’s flickr cc attribution helper to attribute it.

Kigo flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license