There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.