One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.