Love, Death, Humanism

Who does NOT seek love, or more abundant love - that glue that binds us to others, that makes us matter to each other, filling, albeit incompletely, the hole where loneliness otherwise abides? Who does NOT accept, albeit with dread, the inescapable truth that they will die one day, that their trip will be over, that their personal horizon will be breached? Who does NOT wonder, amid the hubbub of daily chores, what it all means, what is the big picture beyond local mundanity? Religion works for some. Others-the more scientifically informed among us-recognize the shortcomings of religious myths to explain the awesome reality of our miniscule moment within the unfathomably vast cosmos of infinite spacetime. What worldview best supplants the abandoned fairy tales of pre-science antiquity? This curated collection of haiku quintets contains illustrated 85-syllable evocative thought-snippets in each of these three regions of the mind.