It is a heavy gift to hold, this doomed delirium of aliveness.

In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

Consider this.

For each of us, one thing is true: Had any one variable been ever so subtly different — had your parents mated on a different day or at a different altitude, had the early universe cooled a fraction of a second faster after the Big Bang, you would not exist as the particular constellation of atoms configuring the particular... See more