No Wonder? Then No Way?

Passion Before Paycheck  

Antonia:

Location: Idaho USA

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I am passionate about Wonder.  I mean the activity of wondering.  I also mean the state in which one finds oneself overwhelmed by fabulous wonder.  And I also mean that moment when you can’t keep it to yourself anymore and you have to share the moment with someone and call it wonderful.  

Do you remember the first moment you experienced unabashed Wonder?  It must have been early.  I was recently babysitting a darling toddler who has just learned that walking a little faster in a jiggidy-jog manner produces running.  I have a big kitchen island in my great-room, and he was running around it.  You could see the moment, after a few times concentrated on the running, that he realized, “Wow, I have returned To The Same Exact Spot!”  Then it’s like, “Cool I can do it again!”  Wonderful, right?  

I don’t remember the first moment I experienced full blown wonder with my being-in-the-world, but I remember one that still gives me tingles.  I remember discovering that I could imagine a world, design the rules (mostly), and all the other cool stuff, and then play in there (living and playing were the same then).  Wow that was cool!  Infinite fresh worlds to wonder about everyday.  

I am adopting a daughter.  I travel to get her next month.  I am already in a state of Wonder.  I stare at her picture and wonder about her.  What is she saying?  How did she survive it all?  Who is she?  And I am also struck by her wonderfulness.  Ask my Dad, he expresses the wonderful about her everyday — yesterday it was her ears.   So I am lucky, I knew I had to prioritize Wonder early.  Now I get to be a mom, a life coach, and a philosopher/writer everyday.  In fact, with the exception of that one job in a bar, life has been and is wondrous.   Yaay wonder!  I hope everyone who reads this immediately wonders about something.  I’m already wondering who is reading this and what you are like.  

Antonia 

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