Original practical exercise
Choose a safe route
Use a familiar public place, or observe from a window if walking is not suitable.
Choose a question
Look for repairs, patterns, colour changes, or another ordinary feature.
Separate seeing from guessing
Record three observations. Keep explanations in a separate list of questions.
Write a small account
Use the observations to describe the route without inventing private lives behind them.
Take a moment
Which detail would another visitor probably overlook?
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