My flegling eaglet, still roaming the nest was assigned a project. 'Imported Species', more harm than good? You know....brown trout, ringneck pheasant, starling(?) sparrow(?)...etc....

Well, he now knows more than any sane person would want to, about the brown trout, aka German Brown. But...he's never really SEEN one, he's never felt the protective slime that covers it, didn't know that it had barbs on it's tongue to hold it's prey...a thousand and one of the 'details' that make the fish, or any fish specific to what it is.

So....my question is, "Do we learn more by Text, or Texture?" I can, and have been, spending many of my days glued to my monitor, learning, pure learning. It's taken me around the globe and I have more facts running out of my ears that ever before...but I've been missing out on LIFE, I think. Know what I mean?

I used to have squirrels literally come to the back door and rattle the stormdoor for peanuts...'alas poor Shorttail, I knew him well....cruelly rent from this life by Jinx the Mad, Feline Destroyer'. Now his descendants scream in terror should I even glance in their direction, and run for their bushy longhouse in the branches of the Maple. (Ok, they don't actually scream in terror, they scamper hurriedly...but that loses so much in the telling.)

I've gained a lot, but I've lost a lot also. You've all heard of the expression, 'when one door closes, another opens'...but is it possible the opposite is true also? I feel like I'm being drawn in a thousand directions, and there just isn't enough of 'me' to go around.

Is the answer self discipline, better budgeting of one's time?