Field Notes
Field Notes are where I slow down.
They’re the place where I write by hand, with a fountain pen, or sit quietly with a keyboard and allow one story to unfold. Unlike conversations, which move like rivers, a field note follows a single current. It begins with a moment—a walk, a conversation, a photograph, a question—and stays with it long enough to discover what it has to say.
Some of these notes begin in a notebook I carry everywhere. Others begin after I’ve been walking through a city or sitting in a café. They are written rather than spoken because writing asks something different of me. It asks me to choose one thread from the many that are always moving through my mind and follow it to its natural conclusion.
Elsewhere in The Leeça Space you’ll hear conversations, recordings, interviews, and longer reflections. Those are often born in dialogue and wander freely from one idea to another. Field Notes are different. They are quieter. More deliberate. They are the practice of paying attention.
Many remain exactly as they are. Others slowly grow into essays, conversations, photographs, podcasts, or become part of Land & Lives.
Every larger work begins here.
At the Greenhouse
I went to Île d’Orléans to buy flowers and came home thinking about something entirely different. A conversation with a couple who have spent more than fifty years working the land became a reminder that every beautiful place is shaped not only by its landscape, but by the people who devote their lives to it.