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Wonder, Awe, and Home

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I’m reading “Wonder Switch” by Harris III. This book got cracked open before two books about awe. Those awe books await my attention. But Harris suggests that wonder and awe aren’t the same. He writes that experiencing awe (like looking into the Grand Canyon) needn’t seem magic. A sense of wonder is a sense of magic in the world. Yet there’s another book distracting me. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have another book lurking. “At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth,” by Madeline Ostrander. This one fits my interest in home, and how we define it. So, I’ll read both at once, then on to awe.