[MD] Where's the Target I'm Shooting at?

[Heather Perella]

Hello,

     I was sitting by a creek yesterday with my wife,
and we had this brought to attention.  

     We like the woods more than what human beings
have to say, in a way, due to the woods bringing much
more to my attention than people would ever be able to
bring to my attention.  We, as human beings, are
attentive of this world.  Anything I talk about or any
human could ever suggest to me, via any code of art,
would not ever be able to match what the world is able
to bring to my attention.  When you sit in the woods,
with colors, breeze, sounds, animals, water, touching
trees, everything in the woods, thus, I'm talking
about experience (right up Pirsig's alley), then my
attention is brought to so much more than what human
beings may try to bring to our attention.  It has to
do with the experience.  When I experience all these
subtleties in the woods such as a small, tiny piece of
twig just barely sticking up from the sand near a
creek at the same moment I hear a blue jay while my
eye is catching a red maple leaf nearby, hearing the
creek, a breeze blows on my neck, etc... it's, it's,
it's... just so much brought to my attention.  Humans
don't come close to bringing this much to our
attention.  When our attention is filled so much by
what happens in the woods, so much at once...  Our
focus is flooded with so much and our attention is
heightened.  
     I say heightened compared to listening to what
any person may ever talk about, thus, my attention is
filled so much more.  It is a sense experience, yet,
with so much brought to my attention at once in the
woods, something happens to my experience of life that
is much larger than what any intelligent person could
ever bring to my attention.  It is the amount brought
to my attention that changes the experience when the
two are compared.  
     The depth of what is brought to the attention of
a human being is noticed while experiencing the story
spoken at the camp fire when all the humans are quiet.
 That would be so much more going-on than listening to
somebody talk.  So when the attention of any human
being is brought to such focus and field, heart and
mind, red maple leaf and breeze, etc... all at once
the attention we as people reach in certain depth
captured both in how I am feeling and noticing a gray
cloud in the distance in the blue sky all at once...
with this experience this earth brings to my
attention, no wonder we mention that so much more than
us is brought to our attention from this earth with
sky.
     (A)When so much is brought to our attention at
any time in our life during any of those moment we
have experienced in the woods, and (B)then we are
tricked into focusing on so much less for large
amounts of time during our life in any number of ways
(such as our attention being brought to what humans
have to express), no wonder a result of (B) may be
that (1) we feel we are missing something whether in
our philosophy or in our daily lives, and (2) our
focus drifts, as our attention is not supported by
such large amounts of experiences all at once that the
woods offer and thus, by not having as much support,
as any beams in a building, that the integrity of the
human being needs and allows for from birth our
attention drifts.  
     We need so much brought to our attention as any
walk in the woods may dictate.  

SA

P.S.  This thought may be well received in
evolutionary circles, those that recognize how much of
human history/prehistory has been spent in the
wilderness, and/or anybody that has felt the wind.  

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