Over the summer, I happened upon a huge collection of National Geographic magazines in the bin labeled FREE at the public Library--it was the most complete set I had seen in a long time. Being that my mother was scheduled to teach History classes this year, I loaded them all into my trunk one day after work and took them all home. I sorted the our and sat before a sea of magazines that spanned almost 2 decades. I wondered at all of the stories that had been written, and how much there was to learn from those volumes.
I leafed through the set a magazine at a time, reading random passages and found one about Caribou. How the mothers leave the herd in the mountains to have their young in the low lands, so they can see predators coming. Then the calf, just minutes after birth can stand, then in a week they can keep up with their mother, and after three weeks, they can outrun a grizzly bear. After that three week mark, the rest of the herd comes from the highlands; they instinctively know to do this. Then the whole herd travels inland to prepare for the harsh Alaskan winter. I couldn't help but wonder why we can't be more like animals in the aspect that they thrive off their God-given nature and instincts, it really is amazing.