Noah Cantell
11-15-2011, 10:56 AM
Deeper Reflections: By: Richard Ziert – 10/2011 - 870 words - Flesch Kincaid readability score – easy to read @ 7Th Grade Level 74.1
O.K. here’s another weird article coming from the coffee house, finger snapping stage of the beatnik factory. A little weird is good. A lot of weird is – let’s say - blinked at a little longer than a little weird. On the other hand, what strides by these so called – in the moment - strange people have you seen in your life that led to the real benefit of what we have today? For any of you who have followed my articles, you will know that I look at things differently. Perhaps, in doing so, you have found a part of yourself not necessarily on the surface. Let’s see if we can move apart our – could be – current surface impressions again for deeper reflections. Seeing things differently is not a bad thing. In fact it helps us to understand that which helps us move optimistically forward.
I want to talk about people, bugs, fish, snakes, and anything else our minds can piece together from parts of all of these; using some ideas from one pretence and combining them with other ideas. These other ideas of ours can come from what is printed here, or from our personal experience. The plan is to bring us to a point where seemingly unrelated material, brought together in special ways, will help us become better anglers, better in business, better people.
I’ve been reading a book of short stories from the middle 60’s (the beatnik era) called “Exploring Literature”. Pausing in reflection between the entries, one story adds value to the next. These and other events, from “who knows where”, add worth, or awareness beyond the message in hand.
For example: What’s in our garden? Is it in fact our garden, or is it flowers and weeds extracted from another? Is the bass fishing information we’ve come to know either flowers, or weeds? Vegetables and flowers, everybody likes. Nobody likes digging weeds until we give ourselves an extra boost to take a longer glance at what life spawns therein. We need to try to take the best of what we can from the weed patch and not necessarily through away everything; replanting some information in another garden. A weed is anything growing where we do not want it to grow. A rose among a field of broccoli is out of place; but replanted among other roses it becomes a thing of beauty. In weeding and replanting we can see many forms of life going about the business of survival; survival, all creatures have to come to grips with and much of which we personally have control over if we care enough to embrace it.
And so as it is with the character of our gardens bugs, bees, and “flutter-bys”. Note that the “would be” error here, could be a weed of another genre, but signifies the flight of the butterfly – not just it’s name, and we immediately knew what was being described. If we can see this, we can see things in a new light. Then too we should see that each of these creatures is far too busy with their own problems to be concerned with the gardener. An unseen, unrealized gardener who has the power of life and death in his trowel, and spray can.
So it is again with snakes. Are there any snakes in your garden? Where I live in a part of the Sonoran Desert, just North/West of Phoenix, Arizona, the Saguaro Cactus reigns supreme and is exclusive to this desert. While commonly referred to as wasteland - as you see from its uniqueness, this desert is not necessarily desert material at all but a special kind of garden – rattlesnakes and all. Besides, a desert with ample water is not a desert. With the wrong kind of water, wrong introduction of foreign material or other living organisms, and wrong overall management however, even favored fish in a desert lake, are stunted or die.
Maybe it goes without saying Rattle Snakes at birth are more instinctive than experienced. All creatures are the same in this respect. But what is instinct but eons of déjà-vu learning patterns (experience) produced in genetics. What would happen to our own genetic patterns if we were thrust into a not so good alternate world changed by some outside force and which we were not familiar with?
Some of you will note even though “they” were first on my opening list, except to refer to our gardens and genetics I haven’t talked about “people” as yet. How many of us truly see that we individually control our gardens to the point of success or failure – even if it’s just in some very small or seemingly unrelated way? How many of us understand, exponentially, collectively, the definition of our failure if it should occur? How many of us will now see things differently; life will forever be a gift, a legacy built upon others. Proper utilization of natural resources is paramount to our future; to everything’s future. Let us all please be more reflective as to what our part is in the management over all that we prevail.
Z
O.K. here’s another weird article coming from the coffee house, finger snapping stage of the beatnik factory. A little weird is good. A lot of weird is – let’s say - blinked at a little longer than a little weird. On the other hand, what strides by these so called – in the moment - strange people have you seen in your life that led to the real benefit of what we have today? For any of you who have followed my articles, you will know that I look at things differently. Perhaps, in doing so, you have found a part of yourself not necessarily on the surface. Let’s see if we can move apart our – could be – current surface impressions again for deeper reflections. Seeing things differently is not a bad thing. In fact it helps us to understand that which helps us move optimistically forward.
I want to talk about people, bugs, fish, snakes, and anything else our minds can piece together from parts of all of these; using some ideas from one pretence and combining them with other ideas. These other ideas of ours can come from what is printed here, or from our personal experience. The plan is to bring us to a point where seemingly unrelated material, brought together in special ways, will help us become better anglers, better in business, better people.
I’ve been reading a book of short stories from the middle 60’s (the beatnik era) called “Exploring Literature”. Pausing in reflection between the entries, one story adds value to the next. These and other events, from “who knows where”, add worth, or awareness beyond the message in hand.
For example: What’s in our garden? Is it in fact our garden, or is it flowers and weeds extracted from another? Is the bass fishing information we’ve come to know either flowers, or weeds? Vegetables and flowers, everybody likes. Nobody likes digging weeds until we give ourselves an extra boost to take a longer glance at what life spawns therein. We need to try to take the best of what we can from the weed patch and not necessarily through away everything; replanting some information in another garden. A weed is anything growing where we do not want it to grow. A rose among a field of broccoli is out of place; but replanted among other roses it becomes a thing of beauty. In weeding and replanting we can see many forms of life going about the business of survival; survival, all creatures have to come to grips with and much of which we personally have control over if we care enough to embrace it.
And so as it is with the character of our gardens bugs, bees, and “flutter-bys”. Note that the “would be” error here, could be a weed of another genre, but signifies the flight of the butterfly – not just it’s name, and we immediately knew what was being described. If we can see this, we can see things in a new light. Then too we should see that each of these creatures is far too busy with their own problems to be concerned with the gardener. An unseen, unrealized gardener who has the power of life and death in his trowel, and spray can.
So it is again with snakes. Are there any snakes in your garden? Where I live in a part of the Sonoran Desert, just North/West of Phoenix, Arizona, the Saguaro Cactus reigns supreme and is exclusive to this desert. While commonly referred to as wasteland - as you see from its uniqueness, this desert is not necessarily desert material at all but a special kind of garden – rattlesnakes and all. Besides, a desert with ample water is not a desert. With the wrong kind of water, wrong introduction of foreign material or other living organisms, and wrong overall management however, even favored fish in a desert lake, are stunted or die.
Maybe it goes without saying Rattle Snakes at birth are more instinctive than experienced. All creatures are the same in this respect. But what is instinct but eons of déjà-vu learning patterns (experience) produced in genetics. What would happen to our own genetic patterns if we were thrust into a not so good alternate world changed by some outside force and which we were not familiar with?
Some of you will note even though “they” were first on my opening list, except to refer to our gardens and genetics I haven’t talked about “people” as yet. How many of us truly see that we individually control our gardens to the point of success or failure – even if it’s just in some very small or seemingly unrelated way? How many of us understand, exponentially, collectively, the definition of our failure if it should occur? How many of us will now see things differently; life will forever be a gift, a legacy built upon others. Proper utilization of natural resources is paramount to our future; to everything’s future. Let us all please be more reflective as to what our part is in the management over all that we prevail.
Z