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<\/a><\/p>\nOne of the reasons we tend to be a little dull to the wonder all around us is that it’s all around us.<\/p>\n
It’s what C.S. Lewis said about the fish: It doesn’t know it’s wet.\u00a0\u00a0Our problem is our wonderful abundance. We get used to it.<\/p>\n
I like Robert Lewis Stevenson’s little ditty:
\nThe world is so full of a number of things,
\nI’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.<\/p>\n
To that I could add:
\nBut kings are concerned with so much of the fuss
\nThey could wish to be happy as us!<\/p>\n
But that’s not my point, rather that we are wading around in abundance. There’s so much, we miss it, if we don’t take a longer look . . . a look through the a lens of wonder.<\/p>\n
A wonder-lens.<\/p>\n
Speaking of lenses, the camera helps. Among the plethora of normal life in wonderland, with a camera we isolate one thing, one view. Regardless of a plan for the picture, just taking it gives us a moment’s appreciation of beauty, of uniqueness, of wonder.<\/p>\n
It’s stopping and cropping.<\/p>\n
Seeing more by seeing less.<\/p>\n
Another thing: Every view we take in we own. Not that we can take it only for ourselves, or hide it, or hoard it. It might be everybody else’s as well; but it’s ours for the seeing, for the moment.<\/p>\n
And there’s pleasure in that, too, if we’ll see it.<\/p>\n
Take a look around.\u00a0You’ll find your riches abound.<\/p>\n