Dear reader,
If you were in the eastern or central part of the US, you probably caught sight of a special lunar eclipse last night.
I took it in from a reclining chair in a backyard and watched the crimson red moon take shape, whittle down, wane in peace at its own slow pace.
And what a perfect pace it was to remind us that we are really just living on a rock in space.
John Crowley made a film called We Live In Time that shook me to my core through the passage of years, but you know what, We Live In Space, too, and that moves me equally.
We live in an attention economy, where reels are meant to say and capture everything in split seconds. But we are not machines. I suggest we let machines do what they do, and allow ourselves to do what we do best. In this environment, how do we reel in the kind of ideas that only we can make a reality?
In the words of biomimicry experts, nature’s R&D has been happening for 3.8 billion years. Great things will always take time, space, and iterations. Time. Space. Iterations. The recipe and receipts for zooming out. For fishing for the right ideas (shoutout DreamWorks logo — we welcome a partnership soon!), the ones that don’t come around too often.
I hope you reveled in the eclipse last night. I believe these are God + science’s way of showing us how minor we are in the scheme of everything.
And when we internalize that, the fact that we get to be here and have experiences at all, together, is incredibly major.
Wishing you an over-the-moon weekend, zoomed way out!
With much love & to going beyond the surface,
Anjali