NYC holiday delights

This year end festivities at NYC's Big Apple are a spectacular extravaganza of bright lights and colorful displays. 

One of the city's main attractions is a holiday walking tour of the fabulous store front windows in and around Fifth Avenue's shopping center in Midtown Manhattan. 

"Destination Extraordinary" theme designed by David Hoey

 

Here are three wonder | wander | world top recommendations for 2022. 

dark & light

This holiday season we celebrate hope and peace as we find ourselves in the darkest days of the year on winter solstice.  Wars and illness, hatred and repression have invaded our lives. It is the very time for us to nurture the light within and ignite hope for a better world.

There are so many more people in the world than the few who work on controlling us. We the people are here to participate in our communities and neighborhoods if we want to create a better world. 

the solstice energy portal is open

The Goddess for this season is the Divine Mother - Mother Earth, Mother Mary - our inner mothers.  These next three months are a good time to nurture a new life for ourselves and our tribe. 

Pam Gregory says, "The veil always thins at this time around Equinoxes and Solstices to enable us to receive more high-level information. Each of these is like striking a tuning fork for the next three months, which promise to be eventful."

the wheel of existence

NASA's astronomical year

With the success of the Artemis I mission NASA proudly shares a look back at an astronomical year.

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars - now uncovered by James Webb Space Telescope.

2022 was a big win for NASA and all of humanity. We unfolded the universe, launched a mega Moon rocket, moved an asteroid in space.

NASA 2022 - a year of success

wonder | wander | world is glad we got front row seats to all this awe and wonder.

murmurations with adrienne maree brown

wonder | wander | world pick of the week is Murmurations with adrienne maree brown - bringing her profound and practical voice of reason into our chaotic current events. 

Two years into a global pandemic, adrienne maree brown invites us to root into compassion and reconnect with our state of interbeing. 

illustration by Michael Luong

A writer, activist and facilitator, she describes her thought as postnationalism - others have described it as Black feminism or womanism. She also supports, among others, the Black Lives Matter and prison abolition movements. 

Brown's anthology Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good was released in February 2019 "demonstrates how activists can tap into emotional and erotic desires to organize against oppression." In September 2021, Brown published the novella Grievers, her first long form work of published fiction.

Adrienne Maree Brown invites YES! media readers to join her in writing “fan fiction and fan poetics for the future.”

Her next and final column for this series, she will explore the practical wisdom of “transforming ourselves to transform the world” - tying together the arc of accountability into a cycle of dialectical humanism that allows us to not just survive but evolve. 

multidimensional conversations

A recent post on Change Warrior featured conversations over Thanksgiving - diverse and even difficult yet so worthwhile. Here at wonder | wander | world we add two more for this week. 

"y’all" serves an important function but can have negative connotations

On Jon Stewart's podcast, The Problem - his two guests were Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Their fascinating discussion of American power - whether spreading democracy has actually made us safer, and what our role on the world stage should look like - was absolutely riveting.

Hillary Clinton & Condoleezza Rice on America’s global role & responsibility