Today is not Carl Sagan’s birthday. It is yet another 9/11 anniversary, and I’m compelled to post this. Yes, the Earth is less than a speck in the cosmic dark, but it’s our home. It’s where my mother and father met, fell in love, and had a life together that included creating me. To me nothing articulates our cosmic insignificance simultaneously with our cosmic significance better than The Pale Blue Dot. That the universe created Carl Sagan to string these words together and speak them so beautifully gives me hope.
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