 Henryk Szydlowski (see also Attention) “But bird 'stalking,' to adapt a name, is a great deal more exciting and delightful than bird's nesting, and we get our joy at no cost of pain to other living things. All the skill of a good scout comes into play. Think, how exciting to creep noiselessly as shadows behind river-side bushes on hands and knees without disturbing a twig or pebble till you get within a yard of a pair of sandpipers, and then, lying low, to watch their dainty little runs, pretty tricks of head and tail, and to hear the music of their call. And here comes the real joy of bird-stalking. If in the winter months the children have become fairly familiar with the notes of our resident birds, they will be able in the early summer to 'stalk' to some purpose. The notes and songs in June are quite bewildering, but the plan is to single out those you are quite sure of, and then follow up the others. The key to a knowledge of birds is knowledge of their notes, and the only way to get this is to follow any note of which you are not sure. The joy of tracking a song or note to its source is the joy of a 'find,' a possession for life. But bird-stalking is only to be done upon certain conditions. You must not only be 'most mousy-quiet,' but you must not even let a thought whisper, for if you let yourself think about anything else, the entirely delightful play of bird-life passes by you unobserved; nay, the very bird notes are unheard.” * “After years of wallowing in creative depression, he had quit drinking and had found peace by birding in the city. ‘I didn’t even have to think about it. I just felt easier. I felt easy hearted,’ he said. He had discovered his joy was bid-shaped. The musician was funny and had a smile that was very quiet. He came across as fervent about birds without being reverential.” ~ Kyo Maclear Examen: “Name and describe the wild birds of your neighbourhood. Tell about the song of two of these. “Describe a 'bird-stalking' expedition." Do I see nature study as optional, a pleasant add-on to my resume, or my own “valued possession for life?” How is bird-stalking a metaphor for my role in the classroom? ~~~~~~~ But bird 'stalking': Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education, 1:89–90. After years of: Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation, First Edition, First Printing (New York: Scribner, 2017), 17. Name and describe: “AO Parents’ Review Archives AmblesideOnline.Org” Syllabus I.-Examination I. Describe a 'bird-stalking': Home, 1:360. Day 19 Bird-stalker meditation/100 Days copyright 2025 Laurie Bestvater
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 Жуков В. В. девочка на окне. 1960 “Attention, we know, is not a 'faculty' nor a definable power of mind but is the ability to turn on every such power, to concentrate, as we say. We throw away labour in attempting to produce or to train this necessary function. There it is in every child in full measure, a very Niagara of force, ready to be turned on in obedience to the child's own authority and capable of infinite resistance to authority imposed from without. Our part is to regard attention, too, as an appetite and to feed it with the best we have in books and in all knowledge. But children do it 'on their own';” * “…no intellectual habit is so valuable as that of attention; it is a mere habit but it is also the hall-mark of an educated person.” * “We are aware that our own discursive talk is usually a waste of time and a strain on the scholars' attention, so we (of the P.N.E.U.) confine ourselves to affording two things, ––knowledge, and a keen sympathy in the interest roused by that knowledge. It is our part to see that every child knows and can tell, whether by way of oral narrative or written essay. In this way an unusual amount of ground is covered with such certainty that no revision is required for the examination at the end of the term. A single reading is a condition insisted upon because a naturally desultory habit of mind leads us all to put off the effort of attention as long as a second or third chance of coping with our subject is to be hoped for. It is, however, a mistake to speak of the 'effort of attention.' Complete and entire attention is a natural function which requires no effort and causes no fatigue; the anxious labour of mind of which we are at times aware comes when attention wanders and has again to be brought to the point; but the concentration at which most teachers aim is an innate provision for education and is not the result of training or effort.” * “We can think of attention as the leader of our brain. Wherever our attention goes, the rest of the brain follows. Whatever we pay attention to the brain amplifies.” ~ Amishi Jha * “I make it my priority to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I maintain a simple attention and a fond regard for God, which I may call an actual presence of God. Or, to put it another way, it is an habitual, silent, and private conversation of the soul with God.” ~ Brother Lawrence Examen: “What do you understand by ‘attention?’ How would you train a child in this habit?” What is the educational inference?” “Describe from Brother Lawrence one way in which the highest relationship may be initiated.” ~~~~~~~ Attention, we know: Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:75–76. ...no intellectual habit: 6:99. We are aware: 6:171. We can think: Amishi Jha, “The Science of Taming the Wandering Mind,” Mindful, June 16, 2017, https://www.mindful.org/taming-the-wandering-mind/. I make it my: Brother Lawrence, “THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD,” n.d., 14 Mason esteems Br, Lawrence. 3:212,268. What do you: “AO Parents’ Review Archives AmblesideOnline.Org,” Syllabus I. Examination 2. Describe from Br. Lawrence: 3:268. Day 7 Attention meditation/100 Days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025 |
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