Lisa Ray Instagram – There’s no question that I enjoy being forever an amateur at many – if not all – endeavours. Water Color painting in particular challenges all notions of ‘getting it right’. But what it does is make you look closer, to not lose sight of beauty – wonder- joy. I read somewhere ‘you cannot be a writer if you are unable to name all the trees in your city’ which made me bristle because of course I can – but only by deploying google. But beyond the written word, to feel the breath of life means getting on our knees and noticing. Being captivated by eggs – leaves- shoes – trees and the way sand patterns itself along the shore. Better than meditation even, and a hot bath and a massage, see the world through the eyes of an amateur. It will drop you places you can’t access through your clever mind. Forever delighting in my amateurish ways – that pretty much sums up all I do.