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An archery BOW
Me at my archery birthday party a couple months back
I‘m taking lessons now
Soon I‘ll have my own bow!

I discovered that I really enjoy archery … I never thought I would be good at it, let alone like it!!

Not bookish at all but I needed to share an EXTREMELY rare photo of my boys getting along. Apparently weaponry is the secret to brotherly bonding. Who knew? 🤷‍♀️🤣

The more one concentrates on breathing, the more the external stimuli fade into the background... In due course one even grows immune to larger stimuli, and at the same time detachment from them becomes easier and quicker. Care has only to be taken that the body is relaxed whether standing, sitting or lying, and if one then concentrates on breathing one soon feels oneself shut in by impermeable layers of silence.

This state of unconcerned immersion in oneself is not, unfortunately, of long duration. It is liable to be disturbed from inside. As though sprung from nowhere, moods, feelings, desires, worries and even thoughts incontinently rise up, in a meaningless jumble...The only successful way of rendering this disturbance inoperative is to keep on breathing quietly and unconcernedly, to enter into friendly relations with whatever appears on the scene..

“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.”

“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.”

"'Just as one uses a burning candle to light others with,' so the teacher transfers the spirit of the right art from heart to heart, that it may be illumined. If such should be granted to the pupil, he remembers that more important than outward works, however attractive, is the inward work which he has to accomplish if he is to fulfill his vocation as an artist."

********Another PROUD MOMMA POST************

Soooo very very proud of this girl! She is working hard still to accomplish her goals in her sport 🏹!Especially today coming super close to shooting at 50 in a tournament(she shot a 48!)! She never wavered even when she shot two bad arrows, she pushed through & shot her best tournament score of 266!Plus she contributed to helping her team win the Middle school 1st place! #Archery 🏹🤩

***PROUD MOMMA POST***

First Archery tournament of the season in the books today!!! I am soo proud of Alexa!!! She has worked hard to improve her scores & that showed today!!! A lil nervous being the first tournament but now that it‘s outta the way the stars are the limit!!! ??? #AlexaReneé #bossbabe #Archery #Archer #girlswhoshoot

(Archery is like bowling, maximum score is 300. 6 total rounds worth 50pts each, 3 at 10m & 3 at 15m)