Considering the ants again!
As a small girl, I loved to spend time just watching things in nature - because they offered such great lessons. Even as a child, I guess I was a little bit of a "deep thinker", spending lazy afternoons lulling about, studying geckos on the wall, watching birds build a nest, or taking in the activity at the anthill. The gecko amazed me with its ability to scale the walls without even a slight "slip" in its grip. The birds caught my attention for long period of time as they'd work those tiny beaks and claws around some piece of freshly cut grass and weave it into the form of their nest. The ants, on the other hand, captured my attention because of their seeming "smallness" which never seemed to slow them down or cause them to abandon a project. They hauled objects bigger than their own body size, with nothing more than those two little pinchers and a great deal of balance. Their steady pace was never stopped despite the obstacles presented in thei...