Tonight, I watched a little bit of 60 Minutes on CBS.  The segment I viewed pertained to Bill Gates.  (Yes, Microsoft Bill Gates.  But you nay-sayers…. say nay no more.  He has turned out to be quite the generous Philanthropist and Humanitarian.)

Anyway.  Like him or not, Bill is pretty smart I’ll tell you.  Yep.   They don’t come along like that every minute.   And this TV segment sparked my thinking about how those kinds of people think.  Throughout history, we have had a wealth of brilliant people.

They are phenomenal, each in their own way.  Leonardo da Vinci.  Rosa Parks.  Albert Einstein.  Martin Luther King Jr.  Marie Curie.  Socrates.  Eleanor Roosevelt.  Michelangelo.  Abraham Lincoln.  Georgia O’Keeffe.  Mahatma Gandhi.  Mother Theresa.  And on…. and on.

Each one of them Spectacular.  Ingenious. Exceptional.  Luminous.  Unusually Gifted.  They are crazy-smart in their own ways.  They figure things out.  They see something that needs to be done.

And they do it.

They could have been dangerous minds.  But instead.  They have Genius Sparkles.

I believe this phenomenon also happens in every species on earth.  The dog who rescues an entire family from a burning house.  The cat who walks 1,000 miles to get back home.

And then there is our Pool House Mouse.  Margaret, the Pool House Mouse.

Margaret apparently, wanted to build a nest.  And…… she noticed a roll of toilet paper that looked like great nesting material.  So she managed to climb the toilet paper post….. unroll the roll…. and feed it under the utility room door.

And behind that closed, protected door, Margaret reeled in that toilet paper to build her little soft and safe nook.

Smart Mouse.  Genius-Sparkly-Mouse.