Quickthoughts

There are nights when, as you lay down to end the day, you know that you're not laying in the same place as the one where you laid down the night before. The weight of some new experience displaces the orbit of your world. You know that when you wake up you'll be seeing things from a new viewpoint.

I've now heard the chorus of toad calls filling vast expanses of desert. I've seen the martial discipline of ants invading their neighbors. I've watched iridescent hummingbirds struggle against gravity during a summer downpour. I've laughed in delighted surprise at a bat doing a doggy paddle across a swimming pool.

This is the world as it exists just beyond our peripheral vision. You can see it if you tilt your head just a fraction of an inch to one side--but always at the expense of seeing something else. How can anyone not be intrigued?