Small Wonders

Small Wonders Trailer Bonus Episode 24 Season 1

Origami

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Take an ordinary piece of paper. Fold it. Fold it again. Then one more time. Then sit back and observe the beautiful creation you have made.

Laurell Moffatt reflects on a life-long love of the Japanese paper art of origami.

In it she finds connections to her childhood fascinations and the blueprints for fascinating machines, from the microscopic to the orbital.

But with every fold a line of fracture is made. Damage. Stress. Fracture. Yet each exists for a purpose, for with each fold a flat piece of paper begins to take shape until it becomes what it is being folded to become. A frog, a crane, a swan. A face mask, a starshield, a microscopic surgeon. 

Point or no point, pain and suffering can be just as much a part of life as pleasure and joy. And if suffering in some form is part of what it means to be alive, whether we like that fact or not, it can help to know the reason for the suffering, or if that can’t be known, it helps to know that something good can come from pain. 

What is Small Wonders?

The clarity the desert brings. Hurricanes and hard relationships. Finding reason in the middle of a ruin. Small Wonders are quiet but profound observations about life from Dr. Laurel Moffatt. In each fifteen-minute episode, Laurel uncovers lessons learned from broken and beautiful things that are polished to perfection and set in rich audio landscapes for your consideration.