The "Wonder Chair" was created by Gretchen Baker-Smith as a symbol or catalyst to help generate our hearts, minds and spirits around the topic of wonder and how and where we might experience it within a Small Group of Quaker children named, "Don’t Just Do Something – Sit There!" (with thanks to Billy Jonas)
From Gretchen: "My idea is to bring a painted wooden chair to The Hill that we can call The Wonder Chair. We can move it to different locations – the edge of the field behind the main building, the middle of the little garden between the office and the parking lot, the Meeting House porch, etc. Your Small Group’s job is to create advice and questions or queries that those who sit in the chair might find helpful for expanding their heart’s sense of wonder, and thus sense of love.
Hints:
 You might need to take the chair to one or more of those locations to help draw out your ideas.
 You might talk about how thinking about big questions without being stressed about the exact answers can
expand our hearts and help us feel connected to God and to each other and all of life.
 You might expand the conversation: Where do you go to sit and wonder, wait to be astonished, or welcome The Light? Why is this simple idea so good for us to do regularly?
 I’ll have special paper and pens for your questions and suggestions that will hopefully inspire the group to go deep and wide.

From Kevin: We didn't need any paper or markers, the children took right off thinking and talking about where and how they feel wonder. Kids were all about moving the chair all over the place, but very few really asked to sit in it. Children seemed content to just look at the chair, and it's surroundings, and share verbally about where and how they feel wonder in their lives. The photographer in me, (Kevin), had a ball setting the chair up in various places around Woolman Hill when the light was "just right" to see what came through my cameras.