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It's all about the angles


I could describe the surroundings for you perfectly, down to the way the grain went on each of the wood panels on the floor, I could talk to you at great length concerning the cobwebs knocking at my door or the baying crane flies attacking the windows, baying for the bleeding luminescence seeping from the screen. I could go so far as to describe each and every instrument playing on the track I was listening to, the perfectly clear Irish lung-pipes of Cara Dillon’s songbird vocals. But I won’t, because none of that matters, at least not in this context, or perspective.

It all comes down to angles you see. Not the angles of everything around us, but our angles. The tilt of the head to listen more intently, the hunch, or straightening of the back to become comfortable. The adjustment of glasses to see an image properly, or in this instance, to see the image no-one else may have seen. It doesn’t take much to shift your physical perception of anything, but it opens up a myriad new worlds, endless ideas and possibilities.

Maybe it’s time we did that more often. As I said, it doesn’t take much to shift your physical perception, but to change our mental perception, to move past our own internal biases, our jaded eye or rose-tinted glasses, it’s not so easy. But it’s always worth the effort. The world is a wonderful, enigmatic merry-go-round, and even more so when you look at it from every possibly direction. Don’t miss out.
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