Quantum Forest

I used to lay in the grass, look up into the sky, and imagine I was falling. Reality is a pane of glassThat we tread upon with bare feetWe keep our eye’s forwardSuddenly aware of infinityWhen we meet eyes.I could walk off the earthInto the ocean of stars in front of me — read more

Being a parent has a tendency to amplify the present and keep your mind from wandering much. Life is full of sound, urgency and redirected priorities. No sooner do you start something only to find your attention is needed elsewhere and you have to consistently make these snap decisions on assigning priority between making a… — read more

In the Navy, my job was primarily to stare into a large field of noise and try to make sense of it all. I would stare into a visual and audio representation of the electromagnetic field and everything that was emitting a signal onto it, intelligible or otherwise, and try to find patterns in all… — read more

At some point it dawned on me that something had to exist for the “big bang” to happen in. It was probably my first real, practical look at infinity.Imagine something as vast, and similarly shaped, as the ocean. With everything we on earth have ever seen in the nearly 14 billion years of light that… — read more

To watch the colors of the leaves reflected up from the glassy water as we talk like we’re without the weight of the world hanging over our heads. This is the best I could come up with otherwise. — read more