The great natural phenomena — a murmuration of starlings, the first crocuses after a long winter, a total eclipse darkening the afternoon — are among the universe's most democratic entertainments: free, recurring, and experienced differently every time you see them. Nasreddin watched them with the attitude of a man who had stopped being surprised by beauty but had not stopped being grateful for it, which is the appropriate relationship with things that will keep happening whether or not you pay attention. Pay attention anyway.
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