Hello friends. Today's Pep Talk comes from Tea with Julie.

The email that I send out on Saturday mornings

to help you sustain your energy

in the Project of Parenting and Home Schooling.

Today's topic is the second force of enchantment. Mystery. Here we go. How did it go thinking

about surprise as a force for good? In our series on the four forces of enchantment, it's time to look at the second force, which is mystery.

Mystery provokes depth.

Aw, closer scrutiny, a shift in perspective in perspective.

It's the force of unknowing, the heart of any deep dive in learning.

One of the ways I suggest of any deep dive in learning.

One of the ways I suggest promoting mystery is to help kids see differently using all kinds

of tools.

A microscope, binoculars, magnifying glasses, a jeweler's loop. When I visited

the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California a while ago, I noticed these big magnifying

glasses hanging on the wall. They were provided to examine Leonardo da Vinci sketches.

People flocked to them. You had to wait for one to come free and then they were immediately snapped up again. Holding the glass and looking carefully

through it meant every person spent more time examining the

artwork in that room than any other room I had been in.

All because having something to do that gave us a different perspective felt like an

invitation to depth and participation. When I looked at one of the drawings I noticed that it had been composed of deft hash marks layered, sometimes close together, sometimes far apart.

I could even see the way the ink traced off

or made solid rich lines.

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