Meaning

There are large meanings and small meanings. I have so many small meanings in my life to keep me endlessly fascinated - work, my friends, my band, watching my daughter dance, watching my other daughter play guitar, sharing a glass of wine with my wife and dreaming about our future together. But when I think on the larger meanings - life, death, the planet, the species - I'm dumbfounded sometimes, at a loss to find any.

Carl Sagan said that we are a way for the cosmos to know itself. I've lost friends and family... and it can be trying to scrape out meaning from life sometimes - especially in the face of loss. But I keep coming back to that Sagan quote. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel like I am part of something so much bigger than anything I can imagine or have imagined thus far. This notion generates in me the possibility of meaning - and that is enough I find... and it may be all I'll ever be able to honestly admit to extracting from life - if not meaning itself. But it is enough. Thank you Carl Sagan.