The coaster of thought

I’m guilty m’lud of taking the world around me for granted. I look at the wonders of creation and barely give them a second thought. Of course that tree is growing, my dog wants me to pat him, a friend says hello. All of these things feel commonplace, ordinary, unexceptional. But, when I stopped ‘looking’ and started ‘seeing’, I realised that they are none of these things. Let me take a step back a moment and begin at the beginning where all the best stories start and ask you a question too. Do you really ‘see’ or think about the world around you and why things are the way they are? It’s something I’ve been doing a lot of recently for one reason or another and it follows on from a regular conversation Stevie and I have that goes a little like. ‘Any idea why a flock of geese fly in formation?’ whilst looking up at the sky watching the birds overhead. ‘None whatsoever sweetie’, ‘Mmmmm, let’s just add that to the long list of things we don’t understand then eh!’ ‘OK, let’s do that’. Now you may be able to give me the science behind the gosling formation flying team, but I suspect you won’t be able to tell me ‘why’ they do it, how they knew to do it, how it came to be a good idea, or which goose had the idea first and he/she communicated it to the others. Perhaps it was a conversation that went a little like this; ‘Hey guys, I’...
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