Wednesday, December 7, 2022 Service
"Substitute attention for preparation. Then you'll be working in real time. Focusing attention in the present puts you in touch with a kind of natural wisdom."
— Patricia Ryan Madson

Fishing Before You Know How to Fish

Fishing Before You Know How to Fish
"Through the pines and the one maple I hear her.



I shouldn't have gone fishing if I didn't know how to fish.



I shouldn't have gone fishing if I didn't know how to fish."

Author and activist Courtney Martin shares more in this lovely poem on life, love and our human unpreparedness.

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