No Star Is Ever Lost We Once Have Seen. We Always May Be What We Might Have Been.

“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” - Jean Luc Godard

Artwork by Marina González Eme

"The world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a small amount of goods, nor a relation between means and ends. Above all it is a relation between people.” - Marshall Sahlins

Photo by Megan Laws

This is the beginning of the healing from the addiction – the addiction to oil, the addiction to consumerism, the addiction to that lifestyle which leaves you strung out, feeling miserable and lonely. There is more work to be done. - Doug Good Feather

I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money. It's about 2% movie-making and 98% hustling.

— Orson Welles

Image: Warrior of the Worlds, a graphic novel series that finds the filmmaker leading a double life as he battles alien invaders, Scout Comics.

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html

“The ascension to the tenth level of intellectual heaven would be if we find the question to which the universe is the answer, and the nature of that question in and of itself explains why it was possible to describe it in so many different ways.” - Nima Arkani-Hamed

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-different-kind-of-theory-of-everything

“Science used to be about discovery, now it is about creation.” - Juan Enriquez, Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School 

https://futurism.com/humans-evolve-100-years/

Illustration by Moebius.

Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler

"The sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled...the open road still often calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood." - Carl Sagan

"Wanders" by VFX artist Erik Wernquist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4