Well, with the cougar gone life has a little less spice but my prediction is that there will be another in a year.  Things are just too easy out here.  People and critters come here to this place and get enchanted and wind up never leaving.  Happens to the best of us.

OK, somehow I want to write about something that I have been teaching in archery.  Don’t know where my inspiration came from nor where this post is going; never try and explains the movements of the right brain.  But that never stopped us before.  I have half an hour before my morning walk so here we go.

Archery is so much like my “tries” at living life.  Since a kid I would shoot an arrow as an individual arrow.  And it either hit or missed the target.  Right, it is a way of keeping things simple.  I/You either hit or miss.  But it is a nervous way to shoot where everything has a maximum of stress, there has to be more to life.

Since then I am shooting groups of arrows, four, five, six.  And they don’t have to be on the bullseye, they just hopefully have to be a group.  And what does that prove Felipe?  If I can shoot a group it means that I am being consistent.  Each arrow is shot individually without regard for the arrows before it, so they hit as individuals.  And if those individual hits wind up in a nice tight group than I am being consistent in my technique.  (It helps to have adequate eguipment here too, that being a given.)

So, once I can do that I am well down the road to being where I want to be.  Then I must let my computer in my head keep going and eventually move those upcoming groups over to the bullseye.  And what is my computer doing but gathering information.  And that’s what I tell my students, that is is not a hit or miss but you are gathering information.  They need to work on their technique and when that becomes more organized and consistent than that will be what the target area will look like.

We don’t have to luck arrows in one at a time.  We don’t have to go though the stress of one at a time hit or misses.  All we have to do is relax, organize our technique, trust and gather information.  OK, for example if we have one out of six arrows in the bullseye and five scattered out that is one thing.  We lucked that one arrow in but you can’t count on that happening.  It is far better in my book to have six arrows in a group to one side or above or below the bullseye.  Then you have something to work with.

Then the computer can really do it’s work with moving that group over to where you want it.  And the best way to do that is to be calm and play attention.  Don’t get stressed by, oh no another miss.  It is not about hitting or missing at this learning level it is about getting organized and developing our own technique and the arrows will show it.

OK, hope that made some sense.  I have four minutes to be outside.  See you tomorrow, love as always, Felipe.