Wonder

Someone recently said that wonder dies with the young.

My first reaction was resistance, but I could not articulate why, other than that I don’t wanna think of the world as something that can no longer afford wonder.

It’s certainly easier to evoke wonder from children, because so much of the world is new to them. Who doesn’t look back with longing on the intense coolness of a discovery that fires the imagination, both in real life and in books?

But it can happen to the older reader, too. I don’t...