Joy

The colourful ball filled with helium bouncing in your stomach making you taller, lighter, tickling you from inside until the muscles of your face stretch in a smile and you can’t help yourself but laugh.

Wonder

You look at the world and suddenly, you see it as if you have never seen it before. The birds, the bees, the ants all going about their daily lives, all knowing how to be a bird, a bee, an ant. How astonishing it all is. Every creature, every plant knowing exactly how to be itself.

How did the oak grow from an acorn? How did your kittens make their perfect adult bodies entirely out of cat food? What kind of sorcery is that?

We witness and perform magic every single day.

Seeds become forests.
Caterpillars become butterflies.
A handful of cat food becomes a cat.

It happens so often that we no longer notice.

Until suddenly we do.

Is joy what wonder feels like in the body?