ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to try following his own advice for doing things differently and for seeing more fully, using all his senses, by returning to the same city street the author had attempted to describe in his first field notes back in 1995. Registering “like things” seemed to be the author default way of recording rich detail. Perhaps it helped the author to do that, but arguably, it interfered with seeing relationships among things, such as how people moved in relation to each other and to the land. In describing several people as homeless, the author did not make note of just what led him to this assumption about their relationship to homes. Becoming more conscious of both what and how the author sensed the world – when trying actively to do things differently – was humbling. Periodically engaging in exercises like this may help the people stay humble, and honest.
