Mary Oliver once wrote that at the end of her life she wished only to have been “a bride married to amazement.” I think of that line often. It is both a prayer and a direction. May we learn to stand in the shifting seasons of our lives with that same quiet vow—to be astonished that we are here, breathing, still capable of wonder, still capable of love. Dr. Gabriel Barsawme, from What the Mountains Taught Me About Change