I've been thinking about this all day and hit the 'I don't think he's talking about sticks' part of my examination, then the 'wait that says even more about me.' Thanks a lot, Scott 🙃
Meditation exercise: Find a spot with sticks and twigs and remove them all from a circle, 10-ish foot radius around a tree. Meditate next to the tree for some intuitive amount of time, at least 10 minutes. Then, notice all the twigs you didn’t see the first time, and remove them.