So, on this first day of September, consider this challenge, gentle reader: As you sit there, pick up any object near to hand, and see if it does not contain in it something to strike wonder in you.
A wooden pencil? Consider then a tree. Consider also how complicated the manufacture of a pencil is. Your cup of coffee? That, too, is amazing when you think about — both the coffee and the cup. A book? Well, how wonder-full it is will vary from book to book, but anything reflecting the human mind amazes. Your computer (be it desk-top, lap-top, iPad, iPhone, whatever) — oh, come on!
It is much easier, in short, to see everything as a miracle than to see nothing as one.
[A few footnotes: On trees, see of course this poem; and on the amazing pencil, see this link; and here’s the allusion in the final line.]