Fishing Before You Know How to Fish

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December 7, 2022

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Fishing Before You Know How to Fish

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

"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. { read more }

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For 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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