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Wonder Wednesday

Our wits and the charge of wonder

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Maya C. Popa
Jun 21, 2023
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“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper,” wrote early 20th-century writer, Eden Phillpotts (that name!).

You’d think that poets, whose daily calisthenics include a sort of rarified attention, would have a natural advantage so far as the universe is concerned. But, like all language handlers, we benefit and …

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