Pondering the Cosmos
Speculating With Curiosity
i wonder why
i never before stopped
to wonder about the difference
between wonder the verb
and wonder the noun.
i see that when i say i wonder
i really mean something
more pedestrian
and everyday than wonder
as awe, more like
i ponder or,
as my dictionary puts it,
speculate with curiosity.
i wonder what it would be like if
when i started a sentence with
i wonder
i infused the word wonder
with
wonder.
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3 x 3″; watercolor on paper
last card to Caroline at camp
2025
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Notes about poem and art:
• Vis a vis “Speculating,” don’tcha just wonder what-all other folks are wondering about in those minds of theirs as they go about their business?
• And I Wonder, featuring cosmos flowers in this 9th color-swatch study, has me wondering what additional flowers and other bits of the natural world represented in my yard and gardens I’ll grab with the purpose of trying my hand and eyes at simulating their colors with my humble watercolors. Card #9 was the final card I mailed to Caroline at camp, now being asynchronously posted here at my blog well after she returned home. Before camp ended, however, she thought to capture this photo inside her cabin:
[plus a landscape painted by a camper]
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11 responses to “Pondering the Cosmos”
So much wonder and wondering!
It was such fun for me to see Caroline’s photo, to know those Camp Takodah cabins so well, to have been a leader there myself back in the day, and to remember some of the items I perched on the cabin studs myself. Caroline was duly appreciative of my art and my keeping in touch that way while she was at camp, and I am a happy Gma!
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Love your wonderings, (that started my own). Love the fun, summery patches of color. Like popsicles or jelly beans. Treats on a warm summer’s day. Love Caroline’s gallery. Joy multiplied.
This post filled me with wonder. Admiration, as always for your joy filled ways. And wondering, what gorgeous gift you will think up next. :o) Happy creating, Dotty!
Sheila, thank you so much for your affirmations of my creative play. I so value being in conversation about the wonderings and adventures. I’m enjoying watercolor so much more than I’d ever thought I might. I’m signed up for a one-hour class in town at our senior center on Friday, and I’m eager to see what that class turns out to be.
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I imagine you’ll have heaps and bundles of wonder on your time away this month. Sounds absolutely wonderful! Enjoy enjoy enjoy!
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