Day 604: WoW

Like this, only older and with
a dinosaur book

A little boy upstairs in the National Museum of Scotland reading a dinosaur book with his eyes huge with wonder throughout. Reading intently. In my mind, thanks to his expression, I saw a cartoon thought bubble above his head with one word in it: wow!

The Scottish Museum itself - a huge, beautiful space, full of balconies and stuffed animals. The Natural History section thrilled me. I tried to like the artefacts, but it's the taxidermy that gets me every time. Hello, glass-eyed lizard and posed macaque. Hello, aardvark with massive toes. Hello, red kite (another wow), kestrel (teeny - how do we ever even see them!), fat snake and 'flying' smoky shearwater. I loved them. There's no explaining it. 

Book-chat, coaching calls (x3 today - ace, brilliant, ace, and GOD, my coach is good). Good people, good food, good times. Arthur's  Seat this morning, briskly and blusterily. Views around everywhere. Breathtaking. Speaking of which, I've been noticing the things that take my breath from me and make my heart beat a little bit faster. The top balcony of the Scottish Museum did it, looking down over the suspended sharks and whales and other floating fish; the huge wave on my desktop steals my breath every time with its mass. There must be more. 

The news, this morning, that I WILL be doing my first TEDx talk in October. The excitement and the niggly fear and thrill of that. Time to get a move on. Time to dance.