The earth is spinning on a different axis and I am lost in time and space.
On November 1st I became a grandmother. My first grandchild. All is well, for which we are deeply grateful, for we know that sometimes life does not turn out well. Joy and tragedy are flip sides of the same life coin.
Somehow, at just the right time in my life, I stumbled across this quotation by author and conservationist Rachel Carson:
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. -- The Sense of Wonder (1964)
Wonder. Awe. Rachel Carson is one of my life heroes, a fearless and relentless crusader for our environment, long before anyone ever hear the phrase "climate change." (See Rachel Carson’s story titled "Beauty Overhead" under Stories/Awe.)
May the good fairy give the gift of wonder to each and every one of us.