The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

There is one irony of life that has frustrated and fascinated me as long as I can remember.

We are all put on this earth with the same basic skills. We walk, talk, throw rocks, break things and fix things, to name but a few basics we all possess to some degree. This part I get. The part I find so interesting and confusing is this.

Why are some able to perform one or more of these normal activities so much better than others? More important, when I have picked out one or two skills I really wanted to get good at, ordinary was about as far as I could get.

Meeting a World Champion Calf...