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Alright, welcome to ANI In The Air, Wondrous Wednesday, where I talk about something wondrous.
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Today I thought I'd talk about wonder.
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Particularly, I'm wondering where exactly wonder, you know, comes from.
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So to me, wonder is some kind of combination of curiosity and appreciation of beauty.
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As, you know, I totally get the idea of, of, you know, just being curious, investigating
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things, trying things out, but, and I get the idea of, you know, having an appreciation
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of something that is attractive, meaning something that seems like a, something useful, good,
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not harmful, good choice of mate, something along those lines, right?
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And I even get the sense of, you know, why animals will look cute, that are friendly
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to us, like our, you know, dogs and cats.
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And generally, less so, the more wild animals that are a little bit on the ferocious side,
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I mean, they're kind of cute too.
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I wouldn't call them cute though, right?
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They're kind of impressive in a scary fashion if you were looking at them.
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Whereas you look at a dog, and for the most part, they don't look scary.
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I mean, some people find them scary, but most people, you know, there's a certain sense
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of, of, yeah, like, like, they're a friend, and, yeah.
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And so, you know, I can see where that can come from, because basically, you know, those
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are the signs of the things that we're picking up are on the signs of an animal that is more
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likely to be cooperative than hostile, if that makes sense.
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But the idea of just pure wonder, of, of, you know, just, yeah, I mean, I don't know,
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like I'm looking at a post here, needs to be painted.
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But you know, like, I see the rust, and I see the peeling paint, and I see all the,
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the fine gradations, right, of all the little, little cracks, and the little, it's like a
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whole pattern, and it's just wondrous, just this, this post is wonderful to me, it has
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that emotional grip for me, myself.
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And you know, sort of like, how did that come about, like, from an evolutionary point of
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view?
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What was it that, what is the service of that function?
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And I mean, I can kind of feel internally, like, when I notice these things that are
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wondrous, and of course, you know, you know, there are more things like flowers and rainbows
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and so forth, that, you know, everyone agrees, it's like beautiful, and you wonder about
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them or something, but even just stuff that, you know, like glancing below, someone might
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look and be like, oh, that's ugly.
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I look at it and be like, wow, that's wonderful, you know, the patterns of dirt and the patterns
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of chicken poop.
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I'm currently under the porch in the chicken courtyard, so you know, they come up and they
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do their business on our cement all over the place, you know, broken piece of broken pottery.
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It's kind of wondrous, all these things, right, like, what is that feeling doing for me?
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And you know, calms my mind, really, and it allows me to focus better, but why?
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That's what I wonder.
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So I don't know, I have a good answer to it, I mean, I guess, I guess it's tapping into,
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so you know, like the curious phase of us, I can see evolutionary why it's useful, because
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that's, you know, you start playing around with a couple stones and clicking them together
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and you realize, oh, you can chip the one off with the other, and okay, now I've got
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a sharp edge, and now I've got a tool that I can use for other things.
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So I get that, and you know, that just experimentation and just, you know, and yeah, I guess it just,
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wonder is an avenue to the space just before taking curious action, perhaps.
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When I'm in a state of being able to appreciate wonder, or if wonder happens upon me, and
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I get into that, that state, you know, there's a there's a calmness.
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It's not, it's not the calmness of boredom, which is a little stressful.
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It's the calmness of, like, anticipating something new.
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Some new bit of something.
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Yeah, so I don't know, that's what I'm wondering right now on this wondrous Wednesday.
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It's a wonderfully wet Wednesday, and I guess I will just wander off now in my wonder.