The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.