An ordinary grasshopper looks like an armored alien if you get close enough. With a magnifying glass your own hand turns into a topography of rivers and tributaries. Whole worlds of wonder exist that we never see because we never look closely enough.
What tiny thing has awakened your sense of wonder?
The size of a rat’s brain amazes me. Humans go on and on about how their own large brain size makes them so smart, but rats have miniscule brains in comparison and still quite intelligent.
I have been meditating for several months by looking out the window. In the course of a few months, I stand amazed at how my ordinary backyard has become such a marvel. I watched the leaves change from summer’s green to autumn’s gold. Watched as the breezes redistributed the growing number of fallen leaves. Got to know the last of the leaves hanging on to the trees and felt a mixture of sadness and liberation when they “left home” one day. As we humans layer up for winter’s chill, the trees stand naked and grow even stronger as they bear up under another season.
The blessing in my watch has been that I have become more humble: not so quick to judge something I see at first glance–especially when it comes to continued wonders of creation.
For me it’s always looking at moss and lichen…and tiny mushrooms growing there! So beautiful and fascinating 🙂
I am in the process of purchasing a set of hearing aids so that I don’t have to keep saying with more frequency, “Will you repeat that, please?” I am amazed at what power can be packed into a small attachment which allows me hopefully to catch those missed words and conversations that I know are going on without my input. Even though Georg. Washington had false teeth (of wood, they say), I bet he would have liked having a hearing aid too!