The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: observing

  • Do You Feel Like You’re Being Watched?

    As anyone who regularly reads my blog knows, I spend a great deal of time on my drawbridge, watching the world in minute detail. I know the routines of hundreds of people. I know who owns what dog. I know the cycles of the seasons, the migration patterns, and the angles of the sun at…

  • Lifestyle Sanctimony

    I love to people watch, and operating a drawbridge as I do, I get plenty of opportunity. Half the time people don’t even realize I exist. They must assume that the bridges open themselves. I particularly enjoy unique individuals, and as I observe them I make up stories in my head about what their lives…