{"id":4199,"date":"2023-09-18T00:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T04:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/an-uncommon-meditation-on-presence-and-the-aperture-of-wonder-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T00:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T04:55:50","slug":"an-uncommon-meditation-on-presence-and-the-aperture-of-wonder-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/an-uncommon-meditation-on-presence-and-the-aperture-of-wonder-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anything you lavish with attention will become a mirror, a portal, a lens on the meaning of life \u2014 a dandelion<\/a>, a muskrat<\/a>, a mountain<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A snail.<\/p>\n

Not long after I wrote an existentially hued children\u2019s book about a snail<\/a>, a friend sent me Elisabeth Tova Bailey\u2019s slender, splendid memoir The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 the record of an uncommon experiment in learning that the smaller the aperture of attention, the more wonder rushes in.<\/p>\n

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