Some posts about gratitude and the big picture:
- Day One, by Tim Sommers.
- Gratitude Monday: well, okay, by Bas Bleu.
- Not just heat death: Here are five ways the Universe could end, by Paul Sutter.
[A] phase transition would start in some random spot in the cosmos and race outward at the speed of light, containing within it a brand new kind of universe almost certainly incompatible with the kind of life, chemistry, and even atomic physics that our Universe has managed to concoct.
Because this phase transition bubble expands at the speed of light, there would be no warning of its arrival. One day, we would simply be going about our business and then blink: The new Universe takes its place. Whatever particles had composed our bodies and whatever forces held them together would vanish, to be replaced with a new quantum configuration.
Sleep tight.
- Process, process, process: Dwelling in the Doing: A New Year’s Resolve, by Gary Borjesson.
So, here’s to dwelling in the doing, learning how to love the very things we spend most of our time doing. Happiness itself is like this. It’s not the surge of joy we feel when we find what we’ve been searching for, cross the finish line, or finish building the boat. It is, rather, a way of living in active engagement with the good, meaningful things that make up our life. Your friends, for example.
And one simple way to make a time machine: Dinosaur Comics #4283, by Ryan North.