Wonder

Musing…

In an art gallery, in line waiting to see paintings by Edward Hopper, handed a brochure about the artist, I read while shuffling forward. This is good writing, sets the stage for what is ahead. “For Hopper, real drama was found in the overlooked” *.  Just like the scene around me: people having conversations, looking out the window, checking their watches. All these moments when there’s a lull and nothing terribly exciting is happening. The stuff of everyday, which he puts on canvas, considers worthy of capturing. Nothing extraordinary except the pulse of existence.  Come again? The pulse of existence is extraordinary when we look at it.

*(National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC).

Get Fired Up:

Over the course of a day, start to look at what you’ve overlooked, what you haven’t paid much attention to. Simple things -- like the cup that holds your drink, or how your companion holds his/her cup, or the pattern of light and shadow from your window.

The only goal is to look, to bring wonder alive.