A long video... so I have provided pointers!
00:00-00:24 The Playground Pair are waiting for me at the far end of the park. I walk over and give them food. They stay eating.
00:24-01:04 I head over to the Unbrave Three who are also waiting. I had left food for them round the corner, but the baby squirrel was eating it so they wanted more. Meanwhile, the Playgrounds are dealing with the Extra Crow, who is not one of the pairs and who likes to steal food and tease the residents.
01:04-01:14 The Unbraves have their say on the matter...
01:14-01:32 ...as the Playgrounds attempt to encourage Extra Crow to leave.
01:32-01:49 The Unbraves have decided it's not their problem, so I feed them.
01:49 They are eating
02:07 One of the adults alerts the other (who has been caching food)...
02:11 ..the partner swoops in and chases away the Extra Crow who is right there with them!
02:36 The family come close together as a response to the excitement. It seems they reassure each other.
02:50 The poor Playgrounds are in the eye of the storm again.
02:59 The Unbraves retreat to the trees...
03:07 ...until it's safe to come down again!
Guess what? There's another tomorrow on Bobbit as watchman.
I'm seeking here to do as Baptiste Morizot suggests in Ways of Being:
To combine, in a complete style of attention, all the components of human openness to the outside. To deploy together all the vibrating antennae of sensation, perception, interpretation, deduction, intuition, imagination. We need the incandescent alloy of a vibratory sensitivity to others in their otherness, a participant perception, an interpretive and imaginative activity of great boldness and caution, a rigorous and wild activity of deduction, a creation of hypotheses that is dishevelled in its heuristics and perfectly reasonable in its conclusions, a general openness to signs, an investigative use of the sensing and walking animal body: with all these elements we can reweave sensitive, powerful connections to living territories. We can overcome the blindness of the moderns and recreate affiliations with the living, by recognizing their wealth of meanings. We can try, although we often get it wrong, to translate them a bit.
Those "pointers" on the video work GREAT for helping to follow the action and get your thoughts. I have read the Ways of Being quote 3 times or more. Grin. I must say I esp. like the second sentence - "To deploy together all the vibrating antennae of sensation, perception, interpretation, deduction, intuition, imagination." Oh and "an interpretive and imaginative activity of great boldness and caution," ... And of course the humility and challenge of the last sentence. Anyway ... I'd say you're making a darn good effort using your sensitivities for helping to translate what's going on "outside". Wow.