Chelan Harkin's poem is beautiful and wise. I think it's important and probably essential to allow and rekindle wonder every day to be alive beyond being biological robots programmed and conditioned by society and ourselves. I see my familiar world with new eyes of wonder -- when I see my grand daughter's curiosity, awe, learning, and growth -- she looks with wonder at the moon and stars, and I look at her and them with new eyes of wonder; when I look with wonder at a flower bud beginning to emerge this Spring; when I have a moment of seeing my wife of 45 years with new eyes of wonder at all that she is; when I am filled with wonder that my body with its zillion coordinated activities constantly going on continues to function quite well. Wonder is way beyond rationality. I believe the bandwidth of wonder is as big as life, and the width of rationality is very narrow, and our squeezing wonder into the narrow framework of rationality kills wonder and us.
On Apr 2, 2022 David Doane wrote :