Things Now Sacred: A List

“It is our biological destiny to exist — and then not. Each of us eventually returns their stardust to the universe, to be constellated into some other ephemeral emissary of spacetime. Eventually, our entire species will go the way of the dinosaurs and the dodo and the Romantics; eventually, our home star will live out its final moments in a wild spin before collapsing into a white dwarf, taking with it everything we have ever known — Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and the guillotine and the perfect Fibonacci sequence of the pine cone.” — Maria Popova

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• The gratification of a firm handshake
• Holding hands
• Warm embraces
• Parties
• The theatre
• Concerts
• Sitting beside a stranger
• The drudgery of everyday life
• Lipstick
• Full shelves at the store
• The bustle of the streets
• The farmer’s market
• A wide-awake and roaring world
• Thursday morning
• Bustling streets
•  A stranger’s smile and full face
• Sharing food at a restaurant
• Sidewalk cafes
• Life itself. 
 

 



a quiet quarantine walk in Astoria...