What is somethingwonderful?

Hello again, its been some time, but I'm back now.

What is something wonderful? That, of course, is for you to decide. It could be the iridescent blush of dew refracted by the moribund autumn sun. It could be the smell of freshly mown grass, or the warm summer sun on your back. Something wonderful is the child like joy of being the first to leave footprints in a virgin snowfall; something wonderful is understanding that there is so much to be understood and its the journey along the way. Something wonderful is what’s left when bad things happen and through courage and self determination you rebuild your life, your relationships and your character.

Something wonderful can happen any time, any where to anyone. On a walk along a beach; during a quiet moment of reflection turning in on one’s self; or whilst holding your lover’s hand in a state of drowsy consciousness, entwined in bed.

Something wonderful is what happens in a moment, and if you’re lucky, the memory last forever. What is a life without such moments and lucky is the human that leads a life of such joined-up moments.

I started this website in 2005. Wonderful things happened to me back then and since and my intention was to document them to augment by physical memories of each day. I lost the domain and with it the project was derailed. The domain became available and the project resurrected and with it a sense of urgency to record all the wonderful things.

Most wonderful things are shared, but the shortcomings of human communication mean that we each take a different perspective of wonderful things. Sometimes, some wonderful things need to be viewed through the lens of a camera or carefully chosen words. That way the moment is captured, explored from different perspectives and transmitted. What is transmitted may not be what is received and this could be seen as one of the tragedies of the human condition – that we each live our lives as islands of consciousness, desperate to be understood. In roughly equal measure, it also gives us hope that, through our endeavours, even though we may not be understood by others, we can at least begin to understand ourselves.

In the end, we all live in the hope that something is going to happen, something wonderful.