There are moments that stop you mid-step. A sky that has turned a colour you don't have a name for. The sudden scale of a mountain seen for the first time. A murmuration of starlings shifting and folding over a winter field. You weren't expecting it. You weren't looking for it. And for a moment — just a moment — something loosens, and the noise inside your head goes quiet. Psychologists have a word for this. They call it awe. It sounds almost too small a word for what it desc