What about wonder?
Some moments feel imbued with transcendence, all by themselves. Crackling with chemistry, drenched in meaning and potential. All my senses feel activated, and I am aware.
I think of my conversation with Tony in Atlanta. In that coffee shop, it was so necessary to simply Be There. To listen, to see, to process, to attend. Partly it was since I was travelling out of the country, and this was outside of my scheduled interactions, and I knew I would likely be writing about it even as it was happening: I. Paid. Attention.
Some moments in a work reality can get there. I remember one particular conversation with a colleague, more than a decade ago, where we had somehow opened up a wormhole into that kind of other dimension. The conversation had managed to become about the present reality, but also the future, and a sense of honest, mutual sharing occurred. We stood at the bottom of the office stairwell as the conversation ended. "Man," she said. "Sometimes it feels as if the clouds part and th…
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