Tag: Awe
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The Storm Before It Arrives
There is a particular kind of electricity that exists before powerful or lengthy storms. Not lightning. Anticipation. The air changes first. The pressure shifts. Leaves turn their undersides outward as if listening for something still far away. People glance toward windows more often without fully realizing they are doing it. Nothing has happened yet. And…
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The Crow’s Eye
Where a mind meets another — and neither remains unchanged. There are moments when knowing arrives not through words, but through the steady, unblinking regard of another being. Some intelligences speak in language, some with touch, some through the shared movement of a flock or the vibration of water. And then there are those —…
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Where Curiosity Leads Us
There is a quiet kind of courage in allowing your curiosity to remain alive. To follow a question even when others have stopped asking it—or never cared to in the first place—is to keep a pilot light burning in a universe that is mostly dark and mostly unknown. Curiosity is not a luxury; it is…