Wonder - Word of the Month
Wonder is the Empoword Word of the Month.
Sending wishes for a joyful, wondrous, meaningful holiday season.
Wonder is the Empoword Word of the Month.
Sending wishes for a joyful, wondrous, meaningful holiday season.
by Nancy Feinthel, Guest Blogger
I wonder . . .
What would happen if we took a holiday from the news for a day, a week, a month, perhaps even an entire year or more?
Could we instead look at the world through our own lenses, our vision limitless?
Could we maintain a feeling of bliss, open-minded, open-hearted, and [...]
Let’s play word association. Your word is December.
December…holidays…presents…shopping…errands…mall…crowds…exhaustion.
Okay, I’ll try. December…winter…snow…sleet…blizzard…delayed flights…bad driving conditions!
Okay, let’s try again. This time pretend you are 7.
December…presents…Santa…reindeer…cookies and milk…magic.
My turn. I’ll pretend I am 8.
December…winter…snow…catching snowflakes on my tongue…snowmen…sledding…snow fort…hot cocoa.
I think you get my point.
Where exactly does the wonder go as we [...]
“And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.”
- Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World
Wonder is the Empoword Word of the Month. Not the worried kind of wonder. But rather, the reflective, awe-inspiring kind of wonder.
We haven’t been hearing much about the latter kind these days. Instead, we wonder about the economy, our jobs, our [...]
I remember as a kid how much I anticipated the first snow. I would start looking at the sky in early November to see signs of flakes. For me, winter brought a whole new world of possibilities and play - snow forts, sledding, skiing, snowballs!
I remember how I awed at each unique snowflake. [...]