Field Notes
Field Notes are where I slow down.
They are the place where I write by hand with a fountain pen, or sit quietly at 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 begin in the notebook I carry everywhere. Others emerge after walking through a city, sitting in a café, or returning home from an unexpected conversation. 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 wherever it leads.
Elsewhere in The Leeça Space you’ll find conversations, recordings, interviews, and longer reflections. Those often begin 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.
Some remain exactly as they are. Others gradually become essays, photographs, podcasts, or grow into Land & Lives.
Every larger work begins here.
Field Note: The Man Beside Me
A chance conversation with a mining supervisor on a flight to Labrador became a reflection on curiosity, artificial intelligence, lifelong learning, and the unexpected wisdom found in the stranger sitting beside you.