Status Updates From Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Sun warms us and feeds us and permits us to see, it is powerful beyond human experience. Birds greet the sunrise with an audible Ecstasy. Even some one celled organisms know to swim towards the light. Our ancestors worshiped the sun, and they were far from foolish, yet, the sun is an ordinary, even mediocre star. If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the sun and stars?

I have a terrible need, shall I say the word, a religion, then I go out at night and paint the stars!

Vincent van Gogh

Chap. 9