I never know where to look, or what to expect. But I feel magnetically pulled to birdsong… And I always give in. What I do is not birding, which I’m told - by Kenn Kaufman in Kingbird Highway - is more the sport of looking for birds. A kind of “competitive meditation
What I like most about this article are your self-observation about your own habits of attention and the suggestion that there is a way to use our attention to be with and relate to the world rather than just capture and use it. I am following a good batch of authors now and am having somewhat of an author-play experience, tuning in and listening to the unique voice/song of each author with the intention of delighting in each one's unique expression. I am very much appreciating your song as one of those voices in the word-woods.
What I like most about this article are your self-observation about your own habits of attention and the suggestion that there is a way to use our attention to be with and relate to the world rather than just capture and use it. I am following a good batch of authors now and am having somewhat of an author-play experience, tuning in and listening to the unique voice/song of each author with the intention of delighting in each one's unique expression. I am very much appreciating your song as one of those voices in the word-woods.
As a hearing-impaired person, I really appreciated this. I can hear birds, I just can't understand what they're saying! LOL (Same with humans.)
I love to pace around my yard as different birds come and go. I'm more into watching, but I do like their singing and screeching!