Sonder! I really like these first two pieces. Your formatting is so neat and polished and the word choice is somehow just the right blend of academic/scientific and poetic.
This phrasing was beautiful: "you gesture vaguely to the turbid galaxies roiling above overwhelmed" I love how nonchalant that is and yet the turn to "overwhelmed" at the end.
you should know i am a time traveler & there is no season as achingly temporary as now
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that. — Ellen Degeneres