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
Dec 7, 2022-- "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. (1607 reads)
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Take ActionFor more inspiration, check out this short passage from Patricia Ryan Madson's book, "Improv Wisdom," on knowing when to improvise. [more]
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