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Category: Awe and wonder

I let myself be stopped in my tracks by the ordinary miracle of being alive: the weight of sunlight on my skin, the impossible complexity of a single leaf, the quiet fact that I am here at all.

August 31, 2026

There’s a popular idea that awe requires something monumental: a canyon rim, the northern lights, the birth of a child. And those experiences do deliver it, reliably. But I’ve come to think that framing actually works against us most of the time, because it implies that awe is rare, that it belongs to special occasions….

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