Column: Internal dialogue
Examples and figures of speech are tricky because they are not precise. We might look at something that seems to be particularly analogous, but it is inevitably oversimplified.
So as I was walking through the woods on a rainy Saturday Sept. 11, I was trying to put words to what I was doing.
Was I recalibrating? Clearing the mechanism? Hunters, hikers and all outdoors folk have many neatly packaged explanations that readily available to us, still none of them are exact.
I have given up being 100-percent present when I am in the woods because it seems that some of my best thinking is done there, so I figure, why resist?
There is always something that comes to mind when I am outside. Sometimes it’s a song, phrase or even a movie quote.
Unfortunately, the latest soundtrack to my hunts is eight words from Walker Hayes’s recent hit. Not the whole song. Just eight words. It is a lesson in marketing – things don’t necessarily have to be good, just sticky.
