Aug3

‘try to learn something about everything and everything about something.’ – thomas huxley

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yesterday

 i learned

 baby sandhill cranes

are called

colts

because they’re born with legs

that are so long and strong

 they can run around

within 24 hours after hatching.

(looks like they’re wearing tall boots with heels)

always something new to learn

the world never fails to amaze me.

colts with their parent

—

‘he who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance;

one cannot fly into flying.’

-friedrich nietzsche

 

 

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photo credits: robert simmons

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  4. Yes, I learn something new every day, Beth …
    “It’s never too late to learn anything” …
    “I have learned all kinds of things from my mistakes the one thing I never learn is to stop making them” …

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  14. These birds are so cute! I’ve never heard of them before and it’s always incredible when animals are born ready to walk within hours, whereas it takes humans a year or so.

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  18. Adorable! I’d have never guessed their species, even though a large number of sandhill cranes winter in SW Colorado every year. I’ve never seen them. :( These two look like Amanda Priestly’s newest protégés.
    As for learning … Yes! Knowledge is the one thing no one can ever take from you.

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  20. The colts are so much fun to see. Their breeding and hatching grounds are far north of us here, but when their parents bring them to the coast for the winter, we get to see them in their “elementary school” age – so full of energy and curiosity, and still a bit gangly. Wonderful!

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  23. “Colt” is a humorous name for these chicks.

    The Nietzsche quotation is from Thus Spoke Zarthustra. Here’s the passage:

    “Cursed I call those too who must always wait; they offend my taste: all the publicans and shopkeepers and kings and other land- and storekeepers. Verily, I too have learned to wait—thoroughly—but only to wait for myself. And above all I learned to stand and walk and run and jump and climb and dance. This, however, is my doctrine: he who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance: one cannot fly into flying. With rope ladders I have learned to climb to many a window; with swift legs I climbed high masts; and to sit on high masts of knowledge seemed to me no small happiness: to flicker like small flames on high masts—a small light only and yet a great comfort for shipwrecked sailors and castaways.”

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