Saturday, February 05, 2022

I am not sure that there is enough wonder in the world. Perhaps humans have become so inured to the incrementally accumulated living we call reality that nothing really surprises, when really it should.

Our existence for starters. The fine balance of events, systems, coincidences and calamities made possible the rise of living organisms. A meteorite that spelled doom to the dinosaurs was a boon to the mammals. 

I remember saying to a child once that a particular red point of light in the sky - the star Betelgeuse - was something that we were seeing 640 years in the past. The light had left that star at beginning of the reign of Elizabeth 1. He was astonished.

Let's stop and think at the wonder of it all.

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