Dear Dad, You were always putting your life on the line for others. I will never forget that. There isn't a day that goes by I don't think about you. I will always look up to you. I will always be grateful for the foundation you gave me. Had I only been half as brave as you were, maybe things would have been different. I love you, Always and forever, Your Edlest Daughter
Part 1 - an origin story built on evolving theories a body too large to replicate and long past the beginning of its existence boundary conditions possibly imposed by our observations questioning their absence a set of circumstances for this universe abdicating all responsibility abandoning free will determined to repeat patterns in a 3-D illusion we poke and prod asserting agency in our environment a life among the stars conjuring dreams from nothing an abstraction of quarks and leptons a hill to die on our ending predestined a circular action a predictive power a speculation universal symbols describing what exactly?