tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post7542662968784306218..comments2024-03-27T13:32:06.780-02:30Comments on The Other Side of Eighty: What Are We Without a Sense of Wonder?Wisewebwomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-87407310415243598552012-08-01T12:02:39.518-02:302012-08-01T12:02:39.518-02:30Nick:
Well said. We have to let go of the old spec...Nick:<br />Well said. We have to let go of the old spectacles.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-22981673430045369552012-07-31T18:14:16.396-02:302012-07-31T18:14:16.396-02:30Indeed, you can't teach a sense of wonder. You...Indeed, you can't teach a sense of wonder. You have to learn for yourself how to see things with fresh eyes and forget the bad habit of jadedness.nickhttp://nickhereandnow.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-1997222037566224042012-07-31T12:45:30.049-02:302012-07-31T12:45:30.049-02:30Hattie:
It must be hard for some to find something...Hattie:<br />It must be hard for some to find something that fires up the creative flow, too many years submerged in bureaucratic hell that kills off whatever spark was lying dormant. There is another price tag on everything we do for money.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-30659972016684450652012-07-31T12:39:47.510-02:302012-07-31T12:39:47.510-02:30T:
I love this quote, thanks for reminding me :)
X...T:<br />I love this quote, thanks for reminding me :)<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-69273241248615666482012-07-31T12:39:14.062-02:302012-07-31T12:39:14.062-02:30Marc:
I use the daily evening sunset to spark up m...Marc:<br />I use the daily evening sunset to spark up mine.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-32572998776934629822012-07-31T12:37:55.345-02:302012-07-31T12:37:55.345-02:30Ramana:
I'd say some are born with it.
XO
WWWRamana:<br />I'd say some are born with it.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-33800657353607679102012-07-31T12:37:28.456-02:302012-07-31T12:37:28.456-02:30GM:
I would love to sit and blow bubbles with you....GM:<br />I would love to sit and blow bubbles with you.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-65785527988833405192012-07-31T12:37:00.946-02:302012-07-31T12:37:00.946-02:30Anon:
I agree there are far too few out there stil...Anon:<br />I agree there are far too few out there still open to the wonders of the ordinary and the mundane. Most are medicated. Either by self or by the friendly local doctor dangling zoloft and ambien or whatever floats the boat. There are some that need it, of course, just to get through what passes for daylight hours.<br />Light being something we all crave.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-20766188985105551312012-07-30T19:23:33.282-02:302012-07-30T19:23:33.282-02:30Old people lose it e
when they stop taking their l...Old people lose it e<br />when they stop taking their lives seriously and get involved in pastimes.Or they are still stuck on the notion of productivity and do a lot of copy-cat work in various media. <br />I do think that many are trapped in understimulating environments or in places where they have to pay for everything and all entertainment is canned. <br />And as to all those workshops and such: I can't be bothered. These are pastimes. In my ceramics class, about half the class is unserious and the other half is doing great, and several of them never did ceramics before but have great imaginations and are creating fantastic work with practically no instruction.Hattiehttp://hattie.typepad.com/hatties_web/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-59862514196207352492012-07-30T16:09:22.627-02:302012-07-30T16:09:22.627-02:30From your compatriot and poet, WWW:
“The world is...From your compatriot and poet, WWW:<br /><br />“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” <br />― William Butler YeatsTwilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-25315277837146991282012-07-30T12:55:50.591-02:302012-07-30T12:55:50.591-02:30Thomas Edison Is purported to have said that geniu...Thomas Edison Is purported to have said that genius is 99 percent hard work and sweat, or to paraphrase Shaw, those who can, do, those who cannot, don't.<br />The sense of wonder you allude to gets overlaid by the banal exigencies of daily life: "Getting and spending,/We lay waste our powers."<br />Retaining a sense of wonder is one of the hardest things we apes can do, when we're not stealing food from each other, but not to sound totally cynical, and to drop one last quote, "Man's reach should exceed his grasp,/Else what's a heaven for?"Marc Leavitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400805396776788101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-4268182733386439762012-07-30T11:55:30.364-02:302012-07-30T11:55:30.364-02:30No, one either has it or doesn't. It is all i...No, one either has it or doesn't. It is all in one's conditioning.Rummuserhttp://www.rummuser.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-29661023065091300662012-07-30T07:14:02.438-02:302012-07-30T07:14:02.438-02:30This is why I love to take a young child for a wal...This is why I love to take a young child for a walk - the whole world is a wonder to them and I like to see see it again, with their eyes.<br /><br />I have a container sitting on my kitchen counter.... fancy helping me to blow bubbles to float on the breeze?Grannymarhttp://grannymar.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-48288687041223892972012-07-30T00:15:33.034-02:302012-07-30T00:15:33.034-02:30A sense of WONDER woman...?!!! Surely you jest, yo...A sense of WONDER woman...?!!! Surely you jest, you ask too much, these days I'd be satisfied with curiosity about life or even mild interest in anything beyond what's on television tonight or what to buy next...zombies, that's what they are all becoming a culture of zombies...I am surrounded, so so sad. But we can always hope they awaken some day, thanks to Pandora and her box ;DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com