“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing
(whatever it is) that glitters on the Earth — we call it life.
We know no other.”
— Anne Carson.
an unexpected journey.
“I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by… Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back… We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.”
— Danusha Laméris