Wonder: An Owner's Guide to Your One Extraordinary Life
by Gary Waddell
Wonder is a book about the art of paying attention to your one extraordinary life. Not just the grand moments, but the ordinary ones, the accidental ones, the ones that arrive when you weren't looking.In thirteen lyric essays gathered into four movements, Wonder moves from a North Carolina backyard at twilight to a rainy afternoon at the British Museum, from the Blue Ridge Mountains to a concert hall under the stars, from a sculpture made by a woman who survived a concentration camp to a friend who found one last joke at the edge of everything.It opens with mason jars and fireflies. It closes by releasing them back into the reader's world with a simple question: What is in your jar?
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Gary Waddell, Ed.D., grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina catching fireflies in mason jars, and has spent a lifetime trying to hold onto that particular quality of attention to wonder.He has a background in drama, counseling, and educational leadership, and has worked for thirty years in California trying to make room for wonder in places that sometimes forgot to leave room for it.
Wonder is what a lifetime of paying attention looked like when he finally wrote it down. He lives in Palm Springs, California, where he writes the Letters2Leaders newsletter, volunteers in the Palm Springs arts community, and walks his Chihuahua, Picasso, under the desert stars.You can reach Gary at [email protected]
