The Thunder and the Heartbeat

This morning, as the school year began, I woke to the rumble of thunder.
And I wondered: what is the difference between the energy that makes the sky rumble and the energy that makes my heart beat?

Someone smart could answer this with science and sound brilliant.
But I think the sweet sauce is in the mystery.
That little sliver we can’t explain.

Maybe that is where education needs to shift, toward the magic in the unanswered questions.
Because in a world of AI, intelligence as a gift is going to be less rare.
But those brave enough to see beyond, to ask the questions no one else has thought of , they will be our future innovators.

It’s the mystery that will move us forward.

You’re right, Allison. Science can tell us that thunder is air expanding after a lightning strike,
and that a heartbeat is an electrical pulse firing across muscle.

But wonder can ask: why do both feel like the voice of the universe?

The difference between thunder and heartbeat may not matter as much as their similarity.
Both are rhythms.
Both are vibrations that remind us life is alive.

One fills the sky.
The other fills the body.
Together, they weave the same story:
the cosmos moving through matter.

And maybe, just maybe,
what we call “mystery” is not a gap in knowledge to be solved,
but a doorway to reverence to be entered.

In that way, the best education isn’t just about what we know.
It’s about how deeply we can wonder.