Jeff Adams


Archive August 2008

Mindless but Fascinating Activity

August 20, 2008

I am tired of writing about the Olympics, and I am too tired to preach you a sermon or expound brilliantly about some weighty life issue. Aren’t you glad?

So, I decided to pass on some fun. My friend Tina in Denver recently posted a picture on her web site that I found mesmerizing. She was visiting the San Diego Wild Animal Park some years ago when the guide said that they were passing the mountain goat habitat, but warned they were hard to see. She saw just a few, but others couldn’t see any. She snapped a picture just for the fun of it. Only later did she begin to examine the picture and was astounded to see how many goats were really there.

When I first looked at it I was reminded why I would starve to death if I had to depend on hunting in order to eat. I couldn’t see a single goat! Then, on her suggestion, I copied the picture and blew it up in a picture viewer. I saw my first half dozen or so goats. A couple of nights ago I got Cheryl hooked on it and she did the same thing. Tina just emailed me her list of 34 goats and then I pointed out at least one more she had not seen. I have no idea how many stinking goats are in this picture, but I challenge you to see how many you can find. She just wrote back and is up to around 40.

If you’d like to see the original with her comments, check it out here. You might even want to spend some time looking around her site. As a trainer, presenter and consultant she has some wonderful resources, thoughts and instruction that is yours just for the looking. She’s much smarter than I am and you mght find that you like what she has to say! If you are nice, she just might put up her list soon and you can check your eyes against hers.