[ image: "Capillary Threadmoss" Ptychostomum capillare ]
life is unfathomably rich and gorgeous OK .
Life tip: guy who doesn't know birds goes on a walk every day and sees brown birds. Guy who is curious about the world learns the birds and sees that there are many different types of brown bird. Look, that one is a tree sparrow, not a house sparrow!
Guy who doesn't know birds goes on the same walk 10,000 times. Guy who knows birds goes on 10,000 different walks. Find something that interests you and delve. esp. if it's something common and everyday, because then you see something amazing commonly and everyday-ly.
ALSO tip. There is only so much human-scale variety a commute can contain. So change your scale. In the first few pages of Dr. R. Wall-Kimmerer's Gathering Moss she mentions having her hand-lens (magnifying glass) with her always , and I saw this and went damn, I should also do that. And yes!! Absolutely do that if you have the means! For the micro-scale critter or the moss or such, a few steps away is a different world. Look closely and see them and see their variety.
Anyways it is nice to be able to look at things very closely on a whim. Look at this moss, I went Oooo and looked at it and boom! caterpillar in there! bonus caterpillar that day. And also I can use my hand lens to look at wood grain on tables if im bored.
