Always a
negative!
I know,
since childhood we are exhorted to “keep your eyes on the goal” (that
presumably being at eye level), “look up” (from your computer, your book,
whatever), “look to the sky” (the clouds, the stars, the moon).
This is not
always prudent: in my case experience (painful, very painful) has taught me
that if I am upright on my two feet and either one of them is in the process of
moving (and sometimes just thinking of moving) that I had best keep my eyes on
the ground around them. That one slick
leaf, mossy rock, turned up carpet, two-inch lip on the sidewalk, the one stone
on a flat surface, that piece of flint (o.k. I exaggerate, but only somewhat)
will have me wind milling with my arms (gotten very good at that and there is
some small satisfaction in the fact that my balance is pretty good, I usually
only fall once in the 100 times that I trip, etc.).
However,
sometimes this turns out to be a very happy experience. Look at all of the
things that I would have missed yesterday had I been looking around me or up
(and yes I do look around and up, just try and remember to come to a complete
stop when I do so).
So, keep
your eyes to the ground occasionally – you’ll see things that you would have
missed otherwise.
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| Highway of ants |
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| not sure what it is, but sure is pretty |
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| usually it's the bees, but these beetles seem to like it also |
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| iridescent bugs |
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| local butterfly |
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| I'll hop, if you do. |
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| cricket, laying low |
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