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Eventually, for those who return to gravity’s hold, the echoes stop stirring, the vertigo allays, the disorientation becomes unfamiliar, and the world and space they once left returns to its familiar comfort. What is left is the memory of existing, for a finite moment, in a completely different reality. It is the kind of memory that sometimes weaves itself into dreams, sometimes forces wandering thoughts to recall the splendor of the experience, and is sometimes the revelry that ends a day.  The walls begin to collapse outward, the barren lights which create the shadows, the fans which conjure the breezes, […]

From the small patch of earth, the one with an orange tree, black sage shrubs, the still growing avocado plant that will someday become a tree, the handful of succulents, and the slab of concrete on which he stands, he looks up to the darkened sky with the pin dots of light and time. He looks off past the scattered cloud bodies, reaching out amidst the streaks of light across the aqueous blue, through nebulae and broken bits of satellites and rocket ships still floating in the vacuum, still containing the ghosts of sputnik 1 & 2, the dulled barking […]