Hows and Whys

Since it's Sunday, here's a word from the scriptures:

My eyes fail from weeping,
I am in torment within,
my heart is poured out on the ground
because my people are destroyed,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.

They say to their mothers,
"Where is bread and wine?"
as they faint like wounded men
in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away
in their mothers' arms.

Lamentations 2:11-12

Section of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. Right wing, top third shown.

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot.

Warren Ellis' Global Frequency volume 2.

Things are taking shape. Figured out the "how" and "why." Now to start putting the pieces together.