examining the wallpaper of life........

      We pass a herd of elephants feeding on the combretum veld.  "They like to feed now.  Do you know why?"  Ren turns to ask me.
      Before I can answer, he continues, "I think it's because the branches have dew on them and so they like how juicy it is.  That's what I think."
      It's a question I have never even thought to ask, and it contains an insight into a weakness of mine:  I tend to just accept what I see.  Ren always looks closer, he always asks why.  He has gift for examining the wallpaper of life.
      The art of the way of the tracker is the way he can look at something he has seen a thousand times and always see something new.

-Boyd Varty,  The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life