Field Journal Entry #72 — “Tracks of the Curious”

Not all discoveries come from the Earth. Some come from the people exploring it.

Today I found footprints — small ones — near the edge of the Plains. A family must have been out here recently. I followed the tracks for a while and found a circle of stones where they’d stopped to rest.

In the center was a sketchbook page weighed down by a pebble. A child’s drawing of a fossil. Simple lines. Big imagination.

I left it where it was. Some stories aren’t mine to take.

But I smiled the whole walk back. Curiosity leaves its own kind of fossil.