Awe Is a Word of Wisdom

Our rational, materialistic world view has obscured transcendence and awe. How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing, seeing, looking for awe in all of life. A slimmering. I suggest a galaxy, or a shebang, or a sweet shop. Slime molds have things to teach us. They make us face the facts that nothing lasts forever. That ultimate human control is illusory. We think we can bend the earth to our will, but we know barely anything about microorganisms. The cemetery slime mould slicks onto a twig, so I take it home and feed it. It grows and it grows and it pulses and it flows and