Perhaps some of us have become immune to it. Perhaps we've become immune. Or perhaps we've all simply given in to the culture we live in. They are the sayings of people who are saturated with explanations, and analysis and experience - but completely void of wonder. You'll seldom hear those kind of phrases from young children.
Children findso many things unexpected and extraordinary.
A month ago there was a article in the Globe and Mail about David Blaine, a young magician whois almost single-handedly reviving interest in the art of magic, and whose feats of magic are said tobe completely unbelievable. In the article, Blaine describes how magic is meant to astonish, to dothe unbelievable. And he goes on to say that the only people in the world who don't need magicare babies. They're amazed by everything. This world where things are more than they appear to be - where everydayoccurrences can amaze and astonish.