The Beauty of Radical Wonder

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I have written in the past on the hypnotically dreamy childhood experience, in which hungry curiosity mingled with innocent delight. As children we encountered the world with fresh eyes, a thin slate of preconceptions, and shameless pleasure. As adults it is easy to to lose this somatic consciousness, this curious center-of-gravity that in our modern parlance we boil down to “living in the present”.