pause to wonder

the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. it is the source of all true art and all science. he to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - albert einstein sometimes small things such as this lichen and fungus growing on my fencepost can stop me in my tracks. i'm glad i still have my sense of wonder.