Tag: awe
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Wales ~ sprinkled with bits of magic
Quirky, friendly, magical, puzzling, odd, beautiful, colorful, breathtaking, inspiring, legendary, mystical, smiling faces, enchanting grasslands, buzzing bees, fluttering butterflies, overpowering cliffs over deep ocean waters, reflective beaches … Wales, a land that filled me with awe.
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time to zoom out
Every once in a while I get this great longing to “zoom out”. It is a process I go through when things threaten to get heavy or dull. When I feel that life seems ordinary, loud alarm bells ring inside my mind, because in fact, nothing in this world is ordinary. Life is awesome and…
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Day 18~ March 18th~ Egypt
The most baffling thing about ancient history is the search for the real reasons as to why the ancients did what they did… After being amazed, impressed and dazzled by a 7km avenue in Luxor lined perfectly with sphinxes, I had to ask myself the question: “why would they do that?” It seems far too…
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Day One Hundred Seventy, July 11, 2011
Do you still remember the little spots you played in as a child? A garden, a little forest, a neighborhood alley perhaps? I still do, I remember the trees we climbed, the little houses we built, the small fires we made, the pretend coffees we cooked, and it all felt so huge, like our own…
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Day Forty Eight, March 11, 2011
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein My biggest fear in life is if I were to one day lose the awe of being alive. If that were ever to happen then life…