Attentive Minds
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Attentive Minds An essay whose title places beauty on lower purpose and one named after a condiment don't not seem likely to have anything in common. In the case of Diana Kappel-Smith's essay, Salt, and A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose, written by Ian Frazier, it is true that they do contrast, but by comparing their perspectives, there is an obvious similarity. Through experiences entirely of their own, both essayists show a perspective of embracing the present and an importance in feeling life as it happens. This perspective is reached by two different people with two different life styles, but none the less, their conclusion remains quite similar. Searching for an answer, Kappel-Smith's finds one through nature, while Frazier, on the other hand, is reminded of what he used to know through his children. "It was rebirth," (Kappel-Smith 201), she says, referring to her time in the desert, "I began a kind...

