⚡️ Enlightening Bolts

🚪 How To Find Wonder in Everyday Life: Read the transcript to my latest podcast episode. Listen here.

😢 The Lost Art of Crying: How to build and dismantle a kingdom of ice. Read it here.

🌍 Animal World Map: Explore animals around the world. Try it here.

⏳Carl Jung's Wisdom For The Second Half of Life: What all the best-selling psychology books are trying to tell you: Read it here.

🎇 Image of The Week

“At first glance, a butterfly's wings appear smooth and delicate, but under a macro lens, they transform into an intricate landscape of tiny overlapping scales. These scales are arranged like shingles, each one adding to the wing's vibrant color and pattern. Composed of chitin, the same material found in insect shells, the scales reflect and absorb light in unique ways, creating colors that can shift and shimmer depending on the angle. Photographer Thorben Danke captured these incredible details using high-resolution macro photography, revealing the hidden textures and craftsmanship of nature's design.” See more here.

🪞 The Mystery of Being

Here’s a snippet the latest episode of Where Wonder Went:

“Wonder occurs inside the domain of normal, routine occurrence—ordinary living. When we experience wonder, from my framework, we are creating a higher transparency in our world model. Where it might usually be opaque, wonder increases the transparency of the sphere so we can see past what is typically available to our perception because of familiarity and the mechanisms of habituated perception. We see into the world beyond what we typically apprehend.

This is another way of saying: we make contact with the ever-present interpenetration of the mystery of being as it unfolds inside the mundane.”

🌤️ Open The Sky

Savor these words from Darby Hudson:

🤓 Learn This Word

Talaka: A Nogay word that describes every member of a neighborhood getting together to do a work for free for a poor member of their community

🕸️ From Around The Web

Let the mystery be

“My patient died of a broken heart. She was 79, a widow without children. Her husband, Stan, had died the month before. When the nurse asked if there was anyone to call, she said: ‘No one – unless you can call God.’ Ten minutes later, she was telling me Stan needed her to go on a trip with him. Then the beeping of the heart monitor stretched into a single long note, alarms erupted, and the loudspeaker called ‘Dr Leo, Room 202’ – our code blue for a stopped heart. At our hospital, ‘Dr Leo’ was meant to sound like someone strong, someone who could pull a person back from the edge, out of the jaws of death. It was softer, more human, than ‘Code Blue’. Hospitals try to soften everything – with artwork on the walls, soft jazz in the lobby, water features, healing gardens. Even the code name had a certain je ne sais quoi about it, a gentleness that belied the urgency.

That day, the medical team tried to revive my patient, Dottie, but couldn’t. After they left, I held her hand again and said softly: ‘Go on your trip now with Stan. Go to love.’

The nurses said the clinical name for what happened to her was takotsubo cardiomyopathy – stress-induced heart failure, sometimes called Broken Heart Syndrome. It’s rare, but grief can overwhelm the heart’s ability to keep beating. Most patients recover, but not all. The highest number of reported cases is found in women aged 58 to 75, often after a sudden loss.”

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