A Wish

And here is a wish for the sea­son and beyond sent to me by my good friend, Mike Piper. The wish comes from:

Rachel Car­son: Pre­serv­ing a Sense of Wonder.

“A child’s world is fresh and new and beau­ti­ful, full of won­der and excite­ment. It is our mis­for­tune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beau­ti­ful and awe-inspir­ing, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adult­hood. If I had influ­ence with the good faery who is sup­posed to pre­side over the chris­ten­ing of all chil­dren I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of won­der so inde­struc­tible that it would last through out life, as an unfail­ing anti­dote against the bore­dom and dis­en­chant­ments of lat­er years, the ster­ile pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with things that are arti­fi­cial, the alien­ation from the sources of our strength.”

There’s a lit­tle truth for all of us from the Oth­er Side. That’s a wish worth send­ing out across the whole world. Thanks, Mike.