woodpecker
So yesterday I discovered a path by the rivers edge, that truely follows the edge of the river, through thickets, overgrowths and root fingers. I stood at places and experimented with looking at rocks for as long as I could, without looking away or scanning the surface, just looking focusedly at these rocks poking out of the water. Its startlingly difficult to do this. Taking a Phenomenology Seminar is partly responsible, that is, if I were asked for a causal explaination for why I was doing this. I was trying to listen? or attune to the rockness of the rock. right? well, it instantly got weird. remembering to blink, I would easily for the first 5 seconds, and 15 seconds be able to -allow- it to be a rock, but then my eyes got more and more unwilling to maintain this mode of perception and eventually impossible at after an unknown amount of time. At this instance of anxiety? the rock would [shimmer] and there would be appear a bluish periphery about the rock. This would happen barely perceptibly, but it was always at this point that I also could no longer look at it without shifting focus momentarily before returning to my focus. THAT was fun.
I also got to see a woodpecker pecking at a tree [from very close] and continued to peer at it for minutes and longer.
Fresh Wood Chips in a Halo Ringing About the Roots. I came across in a dense glade, about 7 THICK Trees, which had variously been felled or mostly devoured by some kind of turbo-beavers. wow, biting through a tree? * ???
I also got to see a woodpecker pecking at a tree [from very close] and continued to peer at it for minutes and longer.
Fresh Wood Chips in a Halo Ringing About the Roots. I came across in a dense glade, about 7 THICK Trees, which had variously been felled or mostly devoured by some kind of turbo-beavers. wow, biting through a tree? * ???