Soul Saturdays: "Verbal Photograph"

I discovered Filmutopia's Sunday Morning Movie Blog today thanks to the wonderful world of Twitter, and I am already hooked. In teaching my Creative Writing class last spring, I was trying to explain to my students that every story that can be told already has been--you know, the epic romance, the journey, the coming-of-age, etc.
But, what remains unique is our individual perspectives--no one in the world thinks exactly the way we do or views the world in the exact same way that we do. Therefore, we all have a unique story to tell and interpret things differently giving us all an interesting and worthy-of-sharing voice.
Clive, the Filmutopia blogger, explains it beautifully:
"A unique perspective is what makes a writer valuable. Which is great news, because a unique perspective is the one thing that every human being has. Nobody in the world has experienced life or the world in the way that you have. Your point of view is and always will be unique..I call my observations, verbal photographs. I do that, because that is the exercise I have set myself, to see a moment of interesting behaviour in the real world and to jot it down, as if I was describing a moment in a film. The key elements for me, are that the moment is both visual, and at the same time that it also contains meaning."
 I love his dedication and passion for his craft, his determination to be engaged in the moment while at the same time trying to capture important, funny, meaningful, etc. moments with these "verbal photographs." It's like he wants to try and absorb every moment with every fiber of his being instead of just drifting along, not paying attention as we often do.
He has also inspired me to carry my own notebook with me everywhere I go (which I should have been doing already, but I keep hoping to save up and buy an Ipad to keep notes digitally! Alas, I will make do with a notebook for now). Even for those of you who aren't writers, Clive's approach to being fully engaged and aware of your surroundings and the beautiful, odd, funny, happy, etc. moments in life is something worth imitating and is definitely soul-feeding and creative conducive.