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  "description": "Words make dreams into realities to witness and share.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-07T15:24:50.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.wonderfell.org",
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  "textContent": "_Saturday, February 07, 2026_\n\nGood morning, The Wonder Fell Way.\n\nDreams make etchings on a tablet moving magnets to signal and shape binary light.\n\nEvery morning on Wonder Fell.\n\nWe should consider it more, what happens while we read.\n\nIt's the only activity we do that separates us from monkeys.\n\nMonkeys sing, dance, grunt communications; they even have their own banana counting Science.\n\nBut monkeys don't read.\n\nThe only reason we say our singing, dancing, communicating, and Science-ing are more advanced is because we have the ability to read and write.\n\nBecause we can put our thoughts and dreams into the World in a lasting concrete way they are able to grow because they are able to be shared.\n\nWords make dreams into realities to witness and share. People make words; it's how we work.\n\nWe read, for leisure and learning, to recognize we're not alone.\n\nReading and Writing, sharing words in any way, is the most human thing you can do.\n\nThanks for sharing your humanity with me. O/\n\nEvery morning I write my wonder while the sun rises.\n\nYou know poets are a different sort of people. But did you know how?\n\nWeird? Depends on the poet. And still not as weird as you think.\n\nIt's work; it's solitude.\n\nEspecially in our flick on your phone viola! access to so much humanity world these days, the office space requirements of peace and quiet necessary to do this work seem strange. Weird only by contrast.\n\nWe have our lives set on go-go-go.\n\nBut where we're going and why must come first.\n\nYou get in the car and go. The reasons why you're going where you are rest with more than \"The GPS says that's how to get there.\"\n\nWhy you do what you do and go where you go... the language you have available for your compelling reasons is my life's work.\n\nWe all believe Love is the greatest reason to do anything. Where'd that notion come from?\n\nO/\n\nSure we all feel that way, but we can't say it, and so share it, without the work I do.\n\nIt's not just Love; it's everything greater than what numbers can do.\n\n> \"There's more to Life than adding it up; there's the joy of adding it up.\"\n> -One of My Favorite Sayings\n\nIt's important while we make our calculations to fly to The Moon that we remember the joy of the success of it.\n\nBecause Joy exists just as much as The Moon does.\n\nThe Rocket Science necessary to fly to A Moon called Joy, called Love, is my field of study.\n\nPoets are people, though, regardless how introverted our craft makes us seem.\n\nLike with other fields of study and work we have departments of focus.\n\nThere's Love for the Love Poets, Politics for the Political Poets. There's Ordinary objects for The Everyday Ordinary is Worth Wonder Poets.\n\nAnd every once and awhile there's A Whole Civilization for The Epic Poets.\n\nO/\n\nAmerica's been lacking one, so I stepped up, shook off death, and went to work.\n\nBecause we have to strengthen our understanding of our stories, and make some new ones, if we're to heal.\n\nBack to Colore for me.\n\nAnd back to making wonderful our wonderful day.\n\nThanks for reading.\n\n#### Wynn\n\nBrought to you by the emoji of the day: 🔤 __abc__\n\nPic Prompt: __Create a stick figure pen and ink image of a rocket ship blasting off from atop an open book.__\n\nArchaic Slab",
  "title": "But Monkeys Don't Read",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-10T18:17:11.815Z"
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