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G.W.'s avatar

This was so enjoyable to read. I'm a wildlife tracker and much of this really resonated with me through that lens--especially the mystery aspect (you kind of have to accept being confused and wrong a lot of the time) and learning to look closer. I was on a trip with some other trackers recently and I watched one of them identify tracks in what still looked to me like just another patch of dirt until they pointed them out; sometimes what's there is incredibly subtle. Continuing to ask questions is a key part of the process, too. Thanks for this!

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Virginia Neely's avatar

Fascinating and fun to read. I laughed out loud at your ironing-board trip across town, partly because it kind of makes sense.I tend to use a combination of "what" and "why" in my ruminations about interesting things.

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