If you've spent any time in Texas in spring, you know the bluebonnets. Now imagine a pair of glasses that shows you what you had been missing — every ultraviolet the flower had been wearing all along, a field suddenly purple, a world you had been standing inside without seeing.
nThat is love, for Richard Smith. That is Zin.

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Richard has spent his life making himself small. He writes poetry in secret. With Zin, he learns to see. He builds a technology that puts a kind of sight once reserved for the powerful into ordinary hands. The powerful notice.

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A parable about what happens when the tools that expand us also learn to watch us. About love as a form of sight, and surveillance as its opposite. About the quiet, expensive moment a man stops recognizing the woman who taught him to see — and a country stops recognizing itself.

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A love story about being seen versus being watched — and the cost of confusing the two.

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Dave is a technologist who has spent two decades building systems and a lifetime writing poetry in secret. He knows what it is to live at the margins of the worlds he helps create — to code by day, write by night, to enter rooms that ask him to leave parts of himself at the door. He writes about love as a discipline of attention — the work of seeing someone completely, and what happens when we stop. The Field of Purple Bonnets, the first in a series, asks what it costs to love in a world learning to watch instead of see.

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Field of Purple Bonnets

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