Over the past year I found myself thinking a lot about attention, awe, creativity, and how we live well when certainty is unavailable. Those reflections came together through consulting work, photography, public talks, workshops, and a series of unexpected connections that grew out of curiosity rather than planning. They eventually became a longer essay, Widening the Aperture, which explores what it means to widen the frame rather than narrow it, to let in more light, and to