(Near) the Street Where I Live
Monday, October 13, 2008
It was all bright pointillism and glow. It was too sky high, and I couldn't reach it, and I ached for trying, and I closed the shutter, and I kept what I could take.
A minister spoke of a baptized baby's wonder yesterday.
Wonder, he said, keeps us alive.
6 comments:
Wonder keeps us alive. I love that. It's like there's a whole world out there for us to wonder about and explore.
There is a whole world, a giant one. The leaves all sprinkled and rare.
oo i love that..'wonder keeps us alive'...
There is no happiness like reading something expressed articulately and/or beautifullly that you've only felt vaguely and achingly!
You are so right, cuileann, and you've come to that knowledge at such a perfect time in your life....
This made me think of one of my favorite quotations:
"Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment." ~ Rumi
:^) Anna
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