amazement
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What’s Happened to Amazement?
If I want to believe in impossibilities, air travel enables this. At 33,000 feet, hurtling through frigid, rarified air at 170 MPH, I'm warm and comfortable, with a Bloody Mary under my buckled belt. I look down at arrow-straight interstates,… Continue reading
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Two Great Instructors
Throughout lifeI have been taughtin tandemby two great instructors–grief and amazement. These may be,in actuality,the only two teachersI'll ever haveor ever need. What have you learnedthat has not comethrough loss? What have you learnedthat has not comethrough wonder? Text and… Continue reading
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Core Word #6: Wonder
I never want to lose my sense of wonder: an infant's impossibly tiny, swirl-tipped fingers; hand-in-hand fireworks over a visionary, hope-filled land; colored lights glowing in a tree laden with history and promise; sweet agony and triumph in Beethoven's 5th; a heart-popping poem by Mary… Continue reading