“the ricochet wonder of it all”

Important not to lose that, in distracting and chaotic times like these.


"I'm stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else," poet Diane Ackerman wrote in her Cosmic Pastoral, which so enchanted Carl Sagan — her doctoral advisor — that he sent a copy of the book to Timothy Leary in prison. "Wonder," Ackerman observed nearly half a century later in her succulent performance at The Universe in Verse, "is the heaviest element in the periodic table of the heart. Even a tiny piece of it can stop time."
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/08/12/eating-the-sun-ella-frances-sanders/