"Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course...We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God." [People would camp out all over the world to see this wondrous event...wouldn't you?]
"Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television."*
Here's to living in wonder! The earth is a treasure, may you experience it as such. We need less distraction and more genuine awe in our lives. As Auntie Mame once said, "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death."
*Read the rest of Paul Hawken's 2009 Commencement Speech given at The University of Portland.
