Spending the morning reading #worldofwonders by @aimeenez & loving it. @n_d_anderson brought it home for me last week. milkweed.org/book/world-of-…
It's a wonderful, poetic book, but mostly, I'm struck by what Nezhukumatahathil is modeling for readers: A way of seeing the natural world, of recognizing its wonder & enchantment.
This graf from the NYT's review gets to it: 
It's precisely what @n_d_anderson & I are hoping readers will take from #TurningofDays. It's more than mere sentimentality or even poetry. It's a way of recognizing the truths that the natural world embodies. A kind of lens or secret decoder ring.
All that to say, I'm loving #WorldofWonders & (if you'll forgive a bit of self-centeredness), I'm really encouraged b/c its confirming our instincts about #TurningofDays.
It's been my experience that each moment naturally result in the conversations we need, the pressures of life & things we've neglected demand resolution. And it seems to me that this moment is one for recovering a certain way of seeing the natural world.
I'm excited to see this conversation developing simultaneously in different spaces, including @AJWTheology's coming book #GodofAllThings.
Ultimately, it's recognizing & connecting parts of life that have been fragmented. Of seeing the thread that unifies universal & personal, that connects sacred & mundane, that ties natural & supernatural. Allowing ourselves to be re-enchanted by these layers of meaning & wonder.
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