{"id":12954,"date":"2020-04-23T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=12954"},"modified":"2020-04-23T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:46:18","slug":"wonder-new-topic-actually-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2020\/04\/23\/wonder-new-topic-actually-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder: New topic (actually old)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m thinking it’s a good subject to recall in the midst of our current blanket of gloom. “Wonder,” if we’ll see it, is still with us. I’m thinking I’ll do a couple of blogs on it, just to get our heads out of the depths and back into the clouds.<\/p>\n

Actually, I did blog<\/a> on it back in February. Not long after that (just before the lock-down) I was a plenary speaker at Simpson University in Redding, California and my assigned topic: Wonder. (I also did a public painting and left it with them.)<\/p>\n

Wonder, it’s a topic as large as the universe. How to bring it down to 40 minutes was the first challenge. But just to give an idea of where we might go on these blogs to come, here was the outline of my talk:<\/p>\n

1) Wonder and Einstein
\n2) Wonder and the macro\/micro
\n3) Wonder in Biblical wisdom literature
\n4) Wonder and the 24 Elders
\n5) Wonder and who you are
\n6) Wonder and daily perception<\/p>\n

As Simpson is a Liberal Arts University that’s Christian, so were my words, and will be here. At least sometimes. Just know that.<\/p>\n

That day I began by asking each person\u00a0to turn to his neighbor and, without pondering, quickly describe the word,\u00a0wonder<\/em>. I have no idea what they all came up with. The list would likely give enough for a book.<\/p>\n

So let’s do that here.\u00a0Think right now how would you describe wonder<\/em> in a word or a phrase?\u00a0 If you’d like, put it in a comment below.<\/p>\n

Who knows, maybe just doing that will help bring us out from this quarantine quagmire, at least a little.<\/p>\n

And it’ll be good to hear from you.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At home, in front of one of my abstracts, modeling the tee-shirt produced for the day at Simpson U.
\nWonder on my back; I’ll take that.
\n(I also wonder when I can get a haircut again.)<\/p>\n

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It’s something to think about again, to widen our world, when it’s otherwise lately beginning to shrink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12954"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12970,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954\/revisions\/12970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}