Instructions for birding

Instructions for birding

• It’s not all that different
• from living well. Go slow.
• Leave your labels at home.
• Sit in the unknown
• and let the silence speak.
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• Wait. Wait a little longer. Wait
• until you remember: a thing
• can travel everywhere, just by holding
• still.
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• Clear that from your mind.
• Forget the existence of time.
• You have all day which is
• to say a lifetime.
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• Listen. Look. Look
• again until you see
• nothing is everything,
• everything in nothing.
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• Let everything find you.
• Let every thing sing its song.
• In the songs, a sky.
• In the sky, a word.
• In the word, a bird.