I have five amazing grandchildren. I'll show you pictures. But in addition to my four wonderful

granddaughters, I have one grandson. His name is Lucas, and he reminds me so much of me when I was a boy.

I was that kid who was always out looking for grasshoppers and leopard frogs and garter snakes and finding bird nests and cocoons and praying mantises.

And that's Lucas.

Wherever we go together, it's, look, pop pop, there's a lizard.

Look, pop pop, there's a a lizard. Look, pop pop,

there's a caterpillar. Look, pop pop up. And he always is seeing amazing, beautiful things.

I've noticed that that ability to catch things out of the corner of your eye, to discern a slight disruption of a pattern.

It's that ability to see fine differences that makes it possible for people like Lucas

and, to a lesser degree these days me pick out wildlife.

I had an experience some years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the Galapagos

Islands and we were in a little excursion boat on high seas, big waves that every once in a while washed over the side of our little

motorboat. And we were about to go snorkeling, and some of us were scuba diving. And our guide said,

keep your eyes open. This is a place where we often see the mola mola, which is the ocean sunfish.

He said, sometimes they go near the surface and you'll see a fin cutting the surface it looks like the fin of a shark and so we sat there on the

in the rise and the fall of the waves looking and i saw one i shouted out there it is there it is and

everybody looked and got to see the mola mola a few few minutes later, I saw it again. I saw another one. Over on the other side of the

boat, I saw another one. I was always the person seeing the mola mola, and I realized it's because

I'm a fisherman back home, and I fish for tarpon, and very often you see a tarp and break the surface.

And I realized I developed a search image for the surface of the water.

That ability to look for a disturbance of the pattern is what helped me as a fisherman and what helped me that day as a

mola mola cider. The flip side, of course, is what you focus on, as one of my mentors told me,

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