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 Notes: The World at the End of the Road
Sometimes the world doesn’t arrive through airports or famous landmarks. Sometimes it walks into a nail salon in St. John’s. A conversation with a woman from Ukraine and another from China became a quiet reminder that even at the eastern edge of Canada, lives from around the globe intersect in unexpected and deeply human ways.
Field Note: A Four-Wheeler and a Conversation
A young man stopped his four-wheeler to chat while I walked the dogs along a quiet lighthouse trail. What began as a conversation about dogs became a story about family, fishing, and finding your own way to contribute. Sometimes the most meaningful stories aren’t planned—they simply appear when we slow down long enough to listen.