A class of biology graduate students come to study spiders……
The first day of class, the renowned professor places a fish before each of them and asks, “What do you see?…”
This goes on for more than a week, until the students are questioning the professor’s reputation.
After a heated exchange with a disgruntled student, the professor calmly added to his daily inquisition, “……and what can you tell me…?”
The next day, a student stands and says to the professor that the students had exhausted their descriptions of the fish and were at their wits end to move the professor on to their area of interest, spiders….
“Has anyone yet grasped the lesson…?” the professor intoned gently to his class of weary and testy students.
In the silence that filled the room, the professor simply said, “It is about seeing, not the fish.”

I think the professor points me to where I can begin to consider this month’s question.

Glad to see that Socrates Cafe will likely continue!