Seeking the beautiful and awe-inspiring
Thoughts on my good fortune late in life to see magnificent and elemental things.
Thoughts on my good fortune late in life to see magnificent and elemental things.
Excerpts from a Christmas sermon full of wonderment and awe by the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray.
As humans we have learned how to fly but seem to have lost the ability to dawdle.
A sense of wonder leads to something deeper, lasting and significant where we are “never weary of life.”
Embrace awe. Allow yourself to wonder.
A couple of weeks ago, I came across this little gem of a film entitled Have You Ever Really Seen the Moon? The premise of this three-minute video is simple: a guy wheels his telescope out into the streets and neighborhoods of Los Angeles and invites people to look at the moon. The reactions restore faith in our ability to be awed. “What is that, bro?” a guy on a bike asks. “It’s a telescope,” says Overstreet. “Do you want to check out the moon?” The offer is made over and over to a cross section of passersby in a cross section of places across greater L.A. And one by one, they put their eyes to the viewfinder and gaze upon what they’ve looked at a million times yet never seen. Interestingly, Overstreet and Gorosh show us very little of the actual moon. No, what holds your eyes, and lifts your soul is the way these different people in different neighborhoods all respond in precisely the same way — with gasps and shouts and whispers …