Two Cool Cats

Amorella here and presently in University Heights, Ohio, visiting the 1940’s home of the Orndorffs’ daughter and son-in-law. Although the photo is from Mason the two cats are here near Cleveland. Ellie (for Thomas Eliot) on the left and Jadah (for the green eyes) on the right. Spiritually it is Autumn. What do cats think?

First, they think in cat and in the photo they are instinctively checking out either birds or squirrels on a crabapple tree to the left of the window. The setting is the heart of the matter.

People instinctively check out their spiritual windows from time to time too – any time they are in wonder. Isn’t that right orndorff?

I have to check out the word wonder first:  the M-W says:

“1 a : a cause of astonishment or admiration  : MARVEL  *it's a wonder you weren't killed*  *the pyramid is a wonder to behold*  b : MIRACLE  2 : the quality of exciting amazed admiration  3 a : rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one's experience  b : a feeling of doubt or uncertainty.”

I don’t personally like any of the above definitions as they are when using the word wonder in this context. I don’t like ‘astonishment, admiration, marvel, miracle or amazed admiration. I don’t like rapt attention or astonishment or awesomely mysterious or new.’ I like ‘a feeling of doubt’ but not in the sense of uncertainty. Uncertainty presents a negative connotation to me as it is used here, unless one is thought jumping to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (quantum physics).

Wonder and doubt go naturally hand in hand like Adam and Eve leaving Milton’s sense of Paradise.

What is the sense of power and pride in such a fictional scenario?

Wonder and doubt are built on humility alone in my sense of this conversation on doubt and wonder or wonder and doubt. I don’t know which comes first logically. Perhaps the words are created in the mind together as a unit. I do not know. These word-thoughts interest me intellectually as much as they do spiritually.

Your immediate and sudden interest, orndorff, is in wonder and doubt as the makings of the conceptual body of a genuinely bona fide  AN-G-EL?

Yes, it is. This concept you mention leaves me thinking.

Such is the point of these exercises. – Amorella.