Thinking hard, or hardly thinking?

Do you ever take time to just wonder? To think without a perceivable purpose? To take advantage of a quite moment and just think without a particular focus; to give your imagination a chance to stretch its arms. I suppose one might call it day dreaming, but I prefer to define it as pondering. It's a time when you can ask questions without expecting an answer or maybe even wanting one. A time that you can mix fiction with what's real, and what's real with fiction. You could close your eyes and listen to the sounds of silence, or you could keep them open and just marvel at all that we take for granted. Things like clouds, trees, water that comes out of a faucet when you turn a knob, fingers, leaves, geese flying in "v's", sunsets and sunrises, ants, mountians, ice, steam, jello, eyes, walking, touch, cars, tadpoles, and so on. Stars and planets fill me with insurmountable awe. The earth seems so big and yet we are but a portion of what is out there. Often in the summer I look at the stars and just ponder and I don't think it will ever get tiresome. So this week I challenge you to find a spare moment and ponder. Look at something as if you were seeing it for the first time.

I'd like to continue blogging about wonder for a while....it's just fun.