The Aesthetics of a Female Hunter™ : The Beginning Of A Journey: Upon Closer Inspection.

Remember this: The road starts somewhere

These are my philosophies on Hunting, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty, ideas, and the undetectable truths of life that ebb and flow like wind through the trees. As I expect, each individual person to come to their own conclusions. My intent is not to project my thoughts, as a belief system, for someone to adopt, but yet an example to be used as a tool for others just starting out.

I always wondered on my thought process when it came to seizing an idea and mulling it over. I had a friend that told me one time that I was always pondering. What if I am the type of person that dwells on the ability to detect all the ingredients in a composition?

Hunting is a composition, much like a work of art or a faceted gem. Depending on the perspective, each view can be different at any given time. If you break Hunting up into several pieces, can each piece stand alone to signify an identifiable marker of Hunting as a whole? Should not all facets be taken into consideration of the whole?

I think so. I am looking every day at the meager, mundane, or the illusion of such and the thin veil that lays over life. I either looked to hard, not enough, or not at all. I remember a Physics professor named Dr. Peterson say..."upon closer inspection". That is what I am always performing.....a closer inspection of things that my senses experience and what my mental processes form after all the information that can be gathered constructs. Let us go together as hunters and take a ‘closer inspection’ of Hunting, Fishing and the Wilderness; a precious jewel, from the eyes of a female hunter.

The Aesthetics of a Female Hunter begins with digesting a world view, regarding how that fits into your belief system of a concept and how you manifest that ideal in the form of a personal aesthetic from the center of your heart and soul. This personal aesthetic can be based upon experiences or life skills you learn from the cradle to the grave.

As women, the world view of hunting can be seen as a personal experience that is a part of your daily life. The world view of hunting is a less personal experience and information you take in from outside sources. These sources can be negative or positive, but you as the female hunter, are the decision maker on what you allow and don’t allow.

The aesthetics of a female hunter takes into allowances that each individual female has a separate and unique upbringing or experience.

This personal aesthetic is a family heirloom the female hunter can pass along to her children or anyone that she cares to share her inner thoughts and world with. One could argue that you would not take Hunting into your being as a part of you, but you do. Females and males who hunt do have the capacity to exert a certain amount of intuition. Whether women have more, or men have more, is debatable. It depends on the individual regardless of sex.

Depending on the approach, in the form of activities people enjoy in life, if you are mindful of what you are doing, will find a certain amount of beauty and ugliness in the imperfection of the activity of hunting. There is always a Ying/Yang aspect to the functioning of the natural world.

On any given day in the life of a human being, in this day and age, you will find an amount of pressure and anxiety pressing down on the individual. Hunting is a form of depressurizing that some choose to participate in. In those moments before dawn and just before dusk, harmony and tranquility seeps in to relax and ease the hunter and empties the mind. In those moments the hunter is most humble.

Pack your backpack and prepare for a journey. We are hunters, after all.
Written by: W Harley Bloodworth

~Courtesy of the AOFH~