Photo©Natalya Erofeeva/123rf One morning, I was walking in a friend’s yard in Idaho and saw a monarch butterfly. I stopped to watch him flutter above a purple coneflower — one of his favorite sources of nectar — and admired his striking orange and black pattern for at...

Photo©Kasper Ravlo/123rf Some days slip away like water through our hands. We wake up, take care of the urgent tasks, follow routines, and by nightfall it feels as if we haven’t truly been present. Yet even in those days, there is always something worth noticing: a...