2026-01-20.1_fragmentarity and attention-curiosity-mindfulness while in nature

walking / being in nature with/in a state of attention/curiosity/mindfulness to the dividual dynamics and more general dynamism of the landscape is an important aspect of fragmentarity/fragmentary praxis. one of the most important effects of this practice is the further development of an embedded fragmentary-awareness, including oneself as just another (dynamic) fragment among fragments.

for example: walking through a river landscape in winter you see water flowing, being solid but also moving in the form of melting snow, you see meadows shaped by floods & human cultivation, you see the borders between the flood plains & the surrounding hills etc.

all of these ‘things’ are fragments & dynamics of the landscape. just as your body walking through it is. by paying attention to the differences and connections of the fragmentary dynamics of the landscape, a sense of (your)self as (just one) fragment among fragments can start to emerge. not the fragment, but also not something wholly different, not a stranger to this environment.

the snow melts much faster than your life cycle*, the hills have been formed in processes much, much longer than your time on this earth. but they are both still connected, as are you (and the footprints you leave on the snow and the hills), by their fragmentary dynamism.

this came out a bit more complicated than i would have wanted. to sum up: go outside & pay attention without (essentially) separating the stuff going on inside you from the stuff going on in the landscape & see what happens.

*but slower than a lot of your thoughts