We are a species between species. Our clever cortex shows us the problem; gives us an inkling; but never leaves us satisfied.

Everything that could, or will, or has, or could have happened, is happening – at this moment and forever. That’s infinity. Perfectly big and small, in every way, all at once.

I was shooting with a friend recently, and, at the end, we began to talk about how important the skill of attentiveness is to shooting. We discussed how learning to shoot had taught us to respect and attend to the moment you’re in. We discussed how, in an ever safening developed world, there are fewer and fewer situations in which people must pay attention to themselves, their surroundings, and their activities, in the moment, in order to avoid significant injury or death. I mean really how many people do you know who work in saw mills, or breaking young horses, or operating heavy machines?

Increasingly, we spend days planted well outside our bodies, in the future. We plan for this; we plan for that; sometimes we plan to sit together in rooms to plan for something else. We think about when we will get this; when we achieve that; when this or that will come to be.

We spend so much time doing this that we make ourselves physically and emotionally ill. There is an entire industry devoted to teaching people to be in the present. This is insane!!!

Right now, get your butt up and go do something that requires you to pay attention to what you’re doing. Carve, cook, chainsaw, sew, jump rope, yoga, sweep, draw, dance. For fuck sake, go to the mall and stare at that little blue, green, yellow, whatever dot. YOU ARE HERE!!!