Many associate a wonder-filled life with children. Wonder actually guides and helps everyone to see the world as it truly is, not as people would have it.
The 19th-century activist and writer Lydia Maria Child shows the benefits of wonder by personifying it as a fairy in her story “The Fairy Friend,“ a first-person exposition in her 1856 collection of sketches and tales ”Autumnal Leaves.” Describing how she navigates her surroundings, Child shows how her fairy friend transforms the world around her in a marvelous way.
