You may know awe as a word, concept, feeling, practice, habit, portal, or field of consciousness.
In whatever ways you engage with awe (whether you notice, wonder, think, talk, sense, surrender, listen, attune, play, pray, hum)…
you’re connecting with its aliveness.
Awe doesn’t care what you “understand” or “explain.”
Awe delights in your presence and attention to the aliveness of everything.
Pulse in your fingertip.
Sip of water.
Curl of a squirrel’s tail.
One spore of mold under one brown leaf.
A child’s reach and take and smile.
Glance that told you a dream.
The baby bird who learned to fly and the one who died.
How the wind rattles and the trees dance.
All that’s been lost and let go.
What you find when you’re not trying to find it.
Love, Melissa
Related posts: You are water; What do you love?; You are frequency; Feet in soil
Additional Resources:
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
Ways of Being / Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
Traversal by Maria Popova
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner
Embodiment Means Being Torn Apart and Flying Away, episode of The Emerald podcast with Josh Schrei
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Keeper of the Wild Words by Brooke Smith, illustrated by Madeline Kloepper
tiny, perfect, things by M.H. Clark, illustrated by Madeline Kloepper
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Button Snail Hum is a pollination project of Noticing Matters.
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