Wisdom at 96: Life Advice from a Century of Experience
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What gives you a sense of awe? You might imagine standing on a wide-open plain with a storm approaching, or holding the tiny finger of a newborn baby. That word, awe - the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your understanding of the world - is often associated with the extraordinary. But you don’t need remarkable circumstances to encounter awe.
You can find it every day, often in the humblest places. Staring up at a starry sky; looking at a sculpture that makes you shudder; listening to a medley of instruments joining into one complex, spine-tingling melody - those experiences remind us that we’re part of something that will exist long after us.
Luckily, we don’t need to wait until we stumble upon it - we can seek it out. Awe is all around us. With a little intentionality, we can reclaim our sense of wonder in the everyday, ordinary moments of life. Perhaps awe, while an ordinary response to the extraordinary, is also an extraordinary response to the ordinary.
Featuring Dot Fisher-Smith.
Filmed in Ashland, Oregon, USA.
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Filming - by Michael Raimondo
Editing - by Justine du Toit
Sound mix - by Tamryn Breakey
The following music tracks are used in this film:
Lullaby to a Bird - by Yoav Ilan (via ArtList)
Pirates And Princesses - by Johannes Bornlof (via Epidemic Sound)
Sky Blue - by Yoav Ilan (via ArtList)
Distant Embers - by Adi Goldstein (via ArtList)
Imagine - by Valter Nowak (via Epidemic Sound)
Under Quilted Canopy - by Doug Kaufman (via ArtList)
A huge thank you to these guys, who gave so generously of their to time to help with translations, enabling us to provide subtitles in the following languages:
Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) - by Shun-Ying Lu
Croatian - by Davor Bobanac
Czech - by Katarína Borek
Dutch - by Karla Greven
English - by Justine du Toit
French - by Amélie Macoin
German - by Tanja Pütz
Greek - by Vicky Polychroni
Indonesian - by Ary Nuansa
Italian - by Grazia Gironella
Korean - by Hotae Devin Noh
Macedonian - by Lidija Pusevska Markovska
Polish - by Anna Konieczna
Portuguese - by Sibylle Steinpass and Lucivani Valvassori
Slovenian - by Tadej Pasar
Spanish - by Paty Aguirre
Thai - by Ornwara Diloknawarit
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