Cryin Crazy Amazacrazy

'wonderful.' The word has almost completely lost its meaning. We sort of use it as a synonym for 'good' or 'great.' In the tv shows, I would throw it in the script when a house didn't warrant a more special description such as 'majestic' or 'stately.'

I just watched Big Fish. Friends, this is what a movie should be. Many words and images are swirling through my mind - but the one that stands out is 'wonderful.'

What sounds so ordinary and mundane is really a quite thought provoking word. Shall we examine its meaning. Logically if something is wonderful (such as Big Fish) it is full of wonder. Good ole Merriam Webster online informs us that wonder is etymologically rooted in Old English and High German and offers the following definitions:

* a cause of astonishment or admiration

* the quality of exciting amazed admiration

and perhaps the best one:
* rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one's experience.

Big Fish. all that and more.

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in other news. I've been so emotional over the past few days. Every minute has been all at once cerebral and spiritual - profoundly moving. perhaps - life altering

and I'm so exhuasted, making the wonders all the more overwhelming and intense.