People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

The kids at the Peabody today were so wonderful. You would think it would be tiring, giving the same spiel countless times throughout the afternoon. The fact that Megalodon lived 25 million years ago and was three times bigger than the Great White shark today seems banal, a line to rattle off for the next customer, an evolutionary sound bite. But really, each time you say the line it becomes new, transformed by the reactions of the eager-fingered children and their boundless imaginations. Their desire to touch, to know what is and is not real, their minds as open as their eyes in the pure space where questioning and acceptance can reside together. Wonder-full indeed.