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Speaking as a shepherd. So much of what amounts to the skill seems routine but doesn't feel like it in the field. Eight ewes here, two ewes in jugs, five ewes on the hill. Corresponding lambs. How do they look? Eyes right? Mouth warm? Bellies? Smell ok around the navel? Hay? Plenty of water, clean and in clean buckets? Walking the field to check the grass, check the fence, to listen for a new bleat. And the aggregate effect is a gestalt of OK. Calm. Still. A lamb. Asleep. #smallstories