On our drive home from San Diego from our fishing trip, we drove through central California on Highway 395 to Reno, Nevada, back into California, into Oregon on Highway 97, West on Highway 58 to I-5, and home. When we were driving through NE California, we saw miles of fence running parallel to the road, only about 18 inches tall. I googled it and found out that it was built to keep tortoises from going out onto the road and getting run over. As I continued to read, I read that the fence project was declared a failure because the tortoises, when they got to the fence, would walk back and forth trying to get through, and would continue this pursuit until they died from anxiety. The entire thing seemed so strange to me that money would be spent on fencing to keep tortoises from getting run over, but they died anyway from tortoise anxiety. I saw hundreds of armadillos killed on the road when we bicycled through the Southern States several years ago, but there was no fence to save them, and there wasn’t one around here when possums were dead on the road everywhere. There are several places in Alaska where fences are built to keep moose off the roads, and they even have big culverts under the road so they can get through without dying from anxiety trying to get to the other side. I think the moose fence was built to protect motorists, but I am not sure. The tortoise fence reminds me of Proverbs 14:12: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” I make a lot of choices in life that seem right at the time, but later on, I would call them a tortoise fence. The big question for me is how to reduce the number of foolish choices I make. The answer from Proverbs is to be a wisdom seeker. If we seek wisdom like silver and gold, we will find it, and when we get wisdom, Proverbs says we will know every right and wise choice in life.