The Universe's Greatest Marvel

Marilyn Robinson has this wonderful essay where she says what if we were to believe that our failures were human. She says I would be honoured to follow Martin Luther King and Susan B. Anthony anywhere even unto extinction. If what we have seen so far is all there is we are the universe's greatest marvel and I love her for that. And we as human beings are often far sillier than the animals that we encounter and claim to understand. Dan Teghaviel Rosetti famously adored wombat. One of them was often taken out by a female friend of his and he's drawn a picture of the wombat on a lead, both of them have halos and both of