Field Notes from the Imagination #001: The Aesthetic Instinct
What happens when we follow the flicker of meaning instead of the noise of the world.
Every journey into the imagination begins with an ache. A homesickness for something we’ve never quite seen. Some call it nostalgia, others call it longing. Lewis called it Northernness. I call it the aesthetic instinct—the soul’s compass toward beauty, mystery, and meaning. In this first issue of Field Notes from the Imagination, I want to invite you to listen to that longing again. It isn’t a distraction. It’s a direction.