Achieving Perspective: Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell and the Poetry of the Cosmic Perspective (David Byrne Reads Pattiann Rogers) – The Marginalian

"Mingle the starlight with your lives, and you won't be fretted by trifles."

After talking Cosmic Philosophy in class yesterday, the world's preoccupation with the passing of a 96 year-old figurehead does seem a bit trifling. 

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/18/achieving-perspective/