Small Wonders

A single raindrop holds about 10 sextillion water molecules, each one having traveled through clouds, rivers, oceans, and the inside of living things before landing on your window. Every puddle is a reunion.

Wonder does not require grand landscapes or rare events. It requires attention. The ordinary world is unreasonably interesting if you look at it for more than a few seconds. A spider building a web is solving an engineering problem. The color of the sky at 6:47 PM is a color that will never exist again in exactly that way.

You do not need to go anywhere to find something astonishing. You just need to stay with what is already here a little longer.