Heroes Not Zombies

If you’ve been reading my posts for a while you’ll probably be familiar with the French word, “émerveillement”. It’s one of my favourite French words, yet it’s a hard one to capture in a single word translation into English. It includes qualities like “wonder”, “amazement”, and “marvel”……so it’s that experience of noticing, of paying attention to, something, and being thrilled and intrigued by it. There’s a delight which emerges as well as a stoking of the fires of curiosity.

Here’s one of those experiences from the other day. I mean, just look at this! What an astonishing flower! Look at the colours, the shapes, the structure and see how it’s perfectly created to attract and involve the bees. In fact, look at the bee too, collecting the nectar and getting covered in pollen!

This is the kind of experience which makes me feel alive!