Running.
Something I used to do a lot of.
These days? Not as much.
Why? I'm sure I could give you a whole rash of reasons why I don't run like I should.
Hopefully I have some extra motivation for running.
What is it?
This.
I'm going to try using my running time as a time for expanding my awareness and mental catalog of available natural resources. Read the blog for more.
April 28, 2009
When you're outside...
I spent most of my day outside today. I mowed half our yard with my reel mower while I contemplated letting the grass in the back yard restore itself to its natural savanna state. I think the village would catch on or someone would call me in for an unkempt yard... nonetheless I'm considering it. I turned the compost pile from it's winter slumber as well as other odds and ins around the yard.
I now have my tracking box set up out back so that I can start getting deeper or more scientific about my tracking, I've already seen the difference in tracks that my dog makes when he has a full bladder and when he's just peed.
Today was also insightful because I have been stalking the squirrels. I mean I am getting really good at my fox walking and movement! I stalked up to one particular squirrel and got close enough I could have touched him if wanted. He just sat there and didn't notice me. When he did we must have looked at each other for nearly 5 minutes. From the time I started stalking him to the time I went back into his house was almost a half an hour! I knew because I had previously decided to go in the house and had looked at my watch before my adventure. Have you ever gotten so close to a squirrel that you could see the color variations of single strands of hair?
Grateful for moments like these...
I now have my tracking box set up out back so that I can start getting deeper or more scientific about my tracking, I've already seen the difference in tracks that my dog makes when he has a full bladder and when he's just peed.
Today was also insightful because I have been stalking the squirrels. I mean I am getting really good at my fox walking and movement! I stalked up to one particular squirrel and got close enough I could have touched him if wanted. He just sat there and didn't notice me. When he did we must have looked at each other for nearly 5 minutes. From the time I started stalking him to the time I went back into his house was almost a half an hour! I knew because I had previously decided to go in the house and had looked at my watch before my adventure. Have you ever gotten so close to a squirrel that you could see the color variations of single strands of hair?
Grateful for moments like these...
April 27, 2009
Stay Tuned....
For those who check in on the blog regularly....
It isn't that I don't have something to say, it's just getting harder to find the time to say it on the blog.
Keep checking in as I plan to have some new posts up soon regarding the outdoor education stuff I'm doing, as always spirituality stuff as well as other random material for fodder. I've been rereading Coyote's Guide and reawakening my creative genius as well.
It isn't that I don't have something to say, it's just getting harder to find the time to say it on the blog.
Keep checking in as I plan to have some new posts up soon regarding the outdoor education stuff I'm doing, as always spirituality stuff as well as other random material for fodder. I've been rereading Coyote's Guide and reawakening my creative genius as well.
April 08, 2009
Praying towards the Sun
From Yahoo News:
This morning, Jews all across the world recited the Birkat Hakhama prayer at sunrise. Birkat Hakhama is said as the sun comes up to mark what according to Jewish tradition is the sun's return to its position at the moment that the universe was created 5,769 years ago. It returns to the spot once every 28 years.
Makes me wonder how many folks who profess creationism know about this?