No Time for Wonder? Really?

from The Crystals and Beyond Podcast Hosted by crystalsandbeyond

We spend a great deal of energy arguing about whether the world is enchanted — and almost none simply looking at it. In this episode we bring together two companion letters: one on why wonder is a stance rather than a belief (you cannot find what you have ruled out in advance), and one that stops arguing altogether and just walks through the ordinary astonishments we hurry past — water, a seed, the afternoon light, the people who know us, our own two hands. Underneath both is the plainest and most ignored fact of our situation: we are here a very short while, inside something enormous and strange, with the rare luck of being able to notice it at all. This is a conversation about the magic of being alive — not the kind you have to believe against the evidence, but the kind you only have to slow down enough to see, while there is still time. The podcast has an accompany two blogs. Start here: If You Don't Believe in Magic, You Will Never Find Any