Life and Portraiture

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan

https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

We are the rare matter, occupying a razor-thin sliver of our planet's mass, that is afforded the rare and precious gift to experience illumination. And twice a day our sun and moon remind us of that in spectacular and awe inspiring fashion.

“Is this heaven?” 

“No... This is Iowa.”

“Iowa? I could have sworn this was heaven.”