Animal tracks are like signs of any kind—they point to something, lead to something. Here’s how the art of tracking can help you become a more mindful tracker of your own life.
Animal tracks are like signs of any kind: they point to something. Become a tracker of your own life.
One winter several years ago, I conducted one of my weekend retreats at a conference center in western Massachusetts. When I arrived, I heard about another retreat being offered there the same weekend—on the subject of tracking—which delighted me, because the two retreats were essentially about the same subject: the search for signs. In their case, signs indicating the presence of animals. In our case, signs indicating the presence of callings.
And animal tracks are like signs of any kind: they lead to something, they point to something. In his book, Tom Brown says that “A track is the end of a string. At the far end a being is moving, a mystery that leaves itself like a trail of breadcrumbs, and by the time your mind has eaten its way to the maker of the tracks, the mystery is inside you.” I can't imagine a more fitting and beautiful description of the process of discernment around our callings.
I‘ve seen this regularly at colleges and universities around the country where I’ve presented the Callings seminars—old people of 20. They seem to have passed through the membrane from youth to adulthood with little of their joie de vivre intact, lost much of their sparkle and initiative, their sense of curiosity and wonder.
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