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Wonder
The entrance to your playful path is wonder. The first step in the rediscovery of your playfulness
is that moment when you allow your self to wonder at something, to wonder at the
beauty, the intricacy, the touch, the sense, the workings of the world.
So, how do you find wonder when the world has become too familiar, the promises too far out
of reach, too rarely fulfilled, in the light of the knowledge that it once was everywhere?
Well, he responds predictably, how about doing something else? Anything else. Taking a
nap, maybe, first. Then a walk in a place where you can look, just look, or touch, or taste or,
smell, or, you know, feel things like the sun and wind and your body moving.
Now is always new. Never then. Step back into it. Pretend something. Pretend that you are
a camera, everything you see, every movement of your eyes, every saccade part of the recording,
everything you hear captured. In real time. Pretend you are the director, framing and
focusing on each moment, each effect, each change in light, each shadow. Pretend you are in
a theater, and you are watching it all in iMax 3D. The camera pans down. You see the sidewalk
sparkling in the sun, moving at the edge of a shadow, framing a single scintillation. It is
your shadow. Wonder of wonders, it is yours.
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