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Islands don’t exist
To swim in the ocean we sometimes have to make a splash.

I know there is a common misconception that cats are somehow less loving than dogs. This is nonsense. The love a cat can give you is sudden and warm. It’s just that a cat’s love comes completely free of any moral or ethical principles. It is love for the hell of it. A completely recreational love.

All reading in short is telepathy and all reading is time travel. It connects us to everyone and everywhere and every time and every imagined dream.

… humans are essentially telepathic creatures and our silent thoughts aren’t contained any more than light is contained in a lightbulb.

We have the unbreakable and the eternal inside us. We have the universe in our blood and bones.

The whole universe is inside us. Every element within us was made in a star. Nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus…we are made of deep space and time and have been forged in supernova. An element is matter that cannot be broken down ..primes of the cosmos. We are made of the elements.

“The interconnectedness of everything made visible. It is all there if you know how to see it.”
One of the most interesting and sentimental of all facts, one that I have always loved… we are all stardust…

Karl had a theory that art and music and everything they ever existed were somehow inside us. A good song or a good piece of sculpture was good because it spoke to something already there within us.

The sadness leaked out. It was there on my face and in my eyes. Grief was a flood that ran through you and caused others to stand aside. Or at least wind up the conversation.

The trouble with tragedy is that it takes everything that comes after. On occasion they’d been comforted by the sharing of memories but when Karl died it became harder because the memories had nowhere to go.