spectacular humility

i joined Twitter for Lent. i am fasting from that other (in)famous social media site. i call this filling the freed space with meaning, since Lent is not just an exercise in abstention. it is about new, old, and/or neo* forms of reflection. tweeting as fasting? reflecting? praying out loud? dbr thinks this is ridiculous. whatever, it's all stardust.

really, i/you/ze/we/it/they are all stardust blown off Hir palm. how is that for inclusive language?

i've recently been contemplating what Neil DeGrasse calls "cosmic perspective." this is the idea that consciousness of the vastness of it all - the expanding web of matter - rather than make one feel small, actually, in tethering one to something infinite, grows one's sense of significance. we are just stardust, and yet, this is why we are spectacular.

spectacular humility - this is an aspiration that i am exploring this Lent.