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Sep 6, 2007

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." --John Lubbock

Time To Be A Witness

Two years into his retirement from the U.S. Forest Service, Jim Lockyer is still too busy painting and doing volunteer work to spend the kind of time he'd like on another favorite pastime: recording outdoor sights and sounds in his nature journal. So at journaling workshops in the Philadelphia area and beyond, the Delaware County artist and naturalist urges his students to do as he says, not as he does: Take the time to be a witness. Make the time to sit outside, quietly taking everything in and getting it all down. "Journaling forces you to see, not just look, and in the process, you discover yourself," says Lockyer,