What gives you a sense of awe? You might imagine standing on a wideopen 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, spinetingling 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 FisherSmith.
Filmed in Ashland, Oregon, USA.

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Filming by Michael Raimondo
Editing by Justine du Toit
Sound mix by Tamryn Breakey

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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 ShunYing 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