The Stars in Our Pockets

“What I want us to protect isn't just the distinctive range of consciousness within each of us but also the ability to share that distinctiveness with each other. That's the only way I've found to feel less alone. That's the deepest way to look at the stars together. To recognize how fundamentally alone each of us is, locked in a separate body and a separate mind, and in that recognition to have the chance to feel all that reaches across the space between us, all the earth-deep connections among us that are real.”

This felt like reading Henry David Thoreau but in the digital age. And it really, really works.