We are made of stars

I respect the journey that people take, even when they choose paths that I find illogical and easy to dismiss rationally. Each of us are free, especially as Americans, to select the path of our own choosing to craft our own individual journey toward life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I argue that it is dangerous and even delusional to tie oneself to 5th century myths as our anchor to morality and inspiration - just look at all the death and pain these beliefs have wrought over millennia and continue to inspire today, and tomorrow. This must end if we are to survive as a species.

Still, we all have a yearning to be connected, to find brotherhood, belonging, and peace about our place in this world as alive, thinking, caring, emotional beings. I have rejected the myths of our religions, and in their place sought out the peace of knowing my place in the cosmos. That comfort, for me, is found in the awesome inspirations of science and nature. This basic fact of the very nature of who we are, who I am, was first summed up to me by reading Carl Sagan when he wrote in his epic series, Cosmos, that "we are all, literally, starstuff". The leading light in astrophysics to replace Carl after his early death is, for me, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Watch his interview on the fact and the connection to the cosmos it brings him....and me.