Our lives: 3 Billion Heartbeats (give or take)...
"Poetic Naturalism." -- The universe is made of atoms. We are made of atoms. But our understanding of the universe is a story. For us, the universe is a rollicking mass of stories.
"Purpose and meaning in life arise through fundamentally human acts of creation, rather than being derived from anything outside ourselves." - S. Carroll
The world is the world. We get to choose how we decide to talk about the world. We choose the stories we tell...