The 30 | Wonder
Take heart if you dread another year-end, best-of list. I promise this newsletter is much richer and as short.
On this last of December, I'm thinking about one of my immense joys in life: to prod my friends and complete strangers past their imagined bounds of comfort. Often that means asking an interesting question.
What common kitchen item connects a poem from a century ago with the strange reality of neutron stars? And did you know that answer can hold a billion tons? It's downright Seussical.
These types of questions tend to begin conversations, one of the most surprising manifestations of humanity -- a pathway of ideas and reactions that unfolds with unknowable endings.
What is a Champagne capitalist? And which space probe is streaking across my telescope tonight?
"A New View of the Moon" won the best short film award at a conference I attended a few months back, and I'm still thinking about its simplicity and awe. But nothing held my imagination recently as much as the discovery of a new shape.
These notions and many more have kept my wonder kindled, and I wish you all not just a rebirth of wonder but a full blossoming in 2019.
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