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Birding, Reading and Eating

 All in a weekend's work.

Work had become non-sensical and we (as in my best half and yours truly) were feeling somewhat stressed out.   Just as the tunnel seemed too dark and long, a nice warm weekend presented itself in SF bay area.  

That made the weekend especially joyous.

Saturday was spent scouring our favorite haunt in South Bay for some delectable food, vadas and parathas and sweet gajrela.

All consumed in small tapas style.  First at a local park in the south bay then by a man made lake on the peninsula.

Stop Asian Hate rallies were being held in the locales we visited - citizenry pushing back at the scars being inflicted by an increasingly divided nation.  All in all the Vitamin D got a boost.  

Sunday was a gentle walk along a local lake with birds of a feather and then some spotted along the trail.  An egret and a grey heron stoked the atmosphere otherwise filled with 20 other species chirping and squawking by the lake.  Apparently the egret and heron are the same family of birds, one just is darker - much like us humans.






A side trail had a male turkey (called Tom) urging potential suitors to check his feather display.  

It all culminated with another good set of pages betwixt a hard cover, courtesy of our local library.  This one titled 'The Hidden Habits of Genius', by a Yale professor.

It seems the debate around Nurture vs. Nature is ongoing in trying to determine what creates genius.  A definition though succinctly contrasts Genius and Talent.

Talent is when someone hits the target no one else can.  Genius is hitting a target no one can yet see.

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