Day 13 - Reading the National Geographic Magazine

 National Geographic Magazine is my favorite magazine--because of the pictures.  Wow, do they have some fantastic photographers on locations all over the world.  I get the magazine every month in the mail and spend that night or the next day sometime looking through it and looking at all the pictures and reading all the captions for the pictures and come away feeling like I've seen a part of the world I will probably never visit in person.  Then I get the May issue, and I begin my routine of thumbing through it--and because of my heightened awareness of looking for things I've never done before, it suddenly dawned on me that I have NEVER read this magazine from cover to cover--hardly read a complete story in it--it has been my picture book.  So I vowed that I would read every single word of every single article in the May 2017 issues of the magazine--and so I have now completed that quest.  It took me a few days to get it all digested, but I will say to you that not only did I read the stories, but I studied the graphs (and I HATE trying to decipher graphs) and everything!  The only thing I didn't read in the magazine were the ads--sorry advertisers but your money was lost on me.  I read about research on what creates "geniuses", I read about Central African Republic and their woes, I read about mental ailments in famous people, I read about King Tut's dad and his dynasty, I read about the moors of Scotland which I did get to visit last year, and about haute couture made out of rotted food waste plus much much more!  And I enjoyed it!  This may or may not be a turning point in my life, but I can say their writers are as good as their photographers!