{"id":11347,"date":"2025-08-12T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wonder-play-and-how-to-be-more-alive-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:49:55","slug":"wonder-play-and-how-to-be-more-alive-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wonder-play-and-how-to-be-more-alive-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n
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We build our lives around structures of certainty \u2014 houses to live in, marriages to love in, ideologies to think in \u2014 and yet some primal part of us knows that none abides, knows that we pay for these comforting illusions with our very aliveness.<\/p>\n

Wonder \u2014 that edge state on the rim of understanding, where the mind touches mystery \u2014 is our best means of loving the world more deeply<\/a>. It asks of us the courage of uncertainty<\/a> because it is a form of deep play<\/a> and play, unlike games, is inherently open-ended, without purpose or end goal, governed not by the will to win a point but by the willingness to surrender to a locus of experience and be transformed by it. <\/p>\n

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer<\/a> celebrates this lens-widening, life-deepening property of wonder in her incantation of a poem \u201cIntention\u201d:<\/p>\n