Practicing Awe
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I was recently walking in the woods with a friend who is a delightful kindred spirit. We both love nature and we both have an endearing tendency to talk to things we see – trees, squirrels, bugs, birds – you name it, we talk to it. On our way back from the waterfall that we
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I know it has been a few months since the last post on this topic. Hoping to get back in the flow again! The other day I was at the doctor’s office for a routine checkup. When they had finished poking and prodding and telling me all the same stuff, I got in the checkout
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“Thus I have said that stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege. I may express this other feeling of cosmic coziness by allusion to another book always read in boyhood, Robinson Crusoe, which I read about this time, and which owes
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Awe is a transcendent emotional experience. It’s an intense jumble of emotions we normally don’t find all in one place – wonder, joy, fear, surprise, and sometimes horror. At the core of it is a realization that something is far bigger and more powerful than we are. I emphatically believe that it was designed by