Pink Think: “Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.” – Dale Carnegie
On Memorial Day, my family and I stopped at a little wildlife preserve called Horseshoe Spring on the way to looking for wild horses in Skull Valley. It had just rained, and the short boardwalk was wet-brown and slippery. I saw birds from the far distance, sitting in the water, which was full of moss and minerals that glistened white in its shallow depths. Two birds with long, narrow beaks flew around us saying, “whipoor-will!” My son spotted an olive-green snake with brown markings, which slithered slowly into a hole. A carp lunged onto the surface, like a bloated submarine, gulping down an unseen prey. Another carp lay dead on the bank; scattered around its gray body were silver scales which at first I thought were ice chips. My children marched on what looked like sinky mud, but it did not take their footprints; the sun must have baked and glazed it into a smooth surface. In the soil, little branches of desert plant had fossilized, reminding me of delicate fish bones from canned salmon.
Think of your most recent vacation. What details do you remember?
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