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The Difference is in The Details

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 Male Bluebird Have you been to one of those memory classes where they ask, “How many dresser drawers do you have?” and did you know? Or care?   It seems that details, seeing them, creating them and remembering them opens the worlds around us.   Details are the difference between the mundane and the wondrous.   They are the difference between ordinary and extraordinary, between good and excellent.   Details amaze me or maybe it’s my ability or inability to observe and remember details. About 6 years ago I started birding.   I met a man, my Peter, who was an avid birder and, of course, I became one also.   I thought it would be a breeze.   I was used to looking at and creating details in my interior design work.   Booted Racket-tailed Hummingbird I saw him in Ecuador and look at his details! I started out knowing there were big birds and little birds, colorful birds and plain birds, birds that flew and birds that stayed on the ground and I knew I liked to watch birds. I lo