It Starts with Wonder

Friday, February 06, 2026

Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.

How's your sunshine, Valentine?

About an hour till here.

But here we are. Let's keep it going.

On with our show...

Have you heard the News? There's something called Good.

Though we don't talk much about it lately, it's always here.

Good is in the 'Why' aisle at The Grocery Store of Reasons.

"Why'd you do that?"
-Curious Friend

"Oh, I had a good reason."
-Friend with a Good Reason

It's wit; it's joking; but this topic is quite serious.

And medicine.

When's the last time you did something because it was a good thing to do?

The Good thing isn't always the fun thing. Going to work is a Good thing. Doing your work well is a Good thing, too.

Do you do your work well? You should. It's a very Good thing to do.

Life works in a certain way; the Sun rises to make morning.

Plant a seed, add water and light, and it grows. Water performs a might as well be magical circle dance from solid, to liquid, to steam; so clouds can water the World fed.

I agree with my friends in all the Sciences that the consistency of matter is worth measure. But it's also Good. The World being reliable is a wonderful thing worth adjectives.

Artists are for adjectives, Scientists for nouns.

Nouns and numbers are limited by design.

Adjectives stretch.

A noun that is also an adjective is a word full of possibilities. We don't use Good as a noun often anymore and that's not so good.

We shy away from it for Scientific reasons. But Good isn't arbitrary, it's Life working right.

Like the sunrise, like steam rising and rain falling, like the loyalty of a dog, like how it feels to be genuinely thanked for a job well-done. Good things.

This is a point I often write about on Wonderfell, a poet's relationship with Science.

We are living in A Dark Age of Science. It sounds sensational, even funny; but it is true.

We don't value feelings, expression, Life alive! enough anymore. We view ourselves as statistics with a chance to fly to The Moon.

What for? Why would anyone in their right mind want to travel to The Moon?

For the experience.

The experience is my field of expression, my expertise.

The Poet. O/

This poet turns on the light of living Life alive with every sunrise.

There's more to life than adding it up Science; there's also the joy of adding it up!

The Joy is my business.

The recognition of the value of which is so sorely lacking lately.

Back to Good.

We hesitate to define the Good because we can't enumerate it. But some experiences in Life transcend what numbers can do. They require words.

There is a presence in you more than numbers can quantify. There's a wick inside the jar called yourself lit with the fire called Life at your inception.

That flame is you.

Your body does its best to care for it, share it, and express it.

We used to call it spirit or soul.

We shy away in Science's dark from talking about it anymore.

It's my duty, my work, to make sure we keep recognition of the personal fire that keeps you moving in your thoughts.

It starts with wonder.

Consider wonder, look around the site some (there's plenty here), and make your wonderful day.