Some days hope seems like the most the improbable and unjustified of options. How wonderful, then, that we somehow still manage to set our hopes aloft, even if we have no idea where they might travel.
Knowing that the hand of evolution is at work doesn’t make it any less marvelous and bewildering that some beings are so extravagantly, excessively, brilliantly beautiful. How could that much splendor be a practical necessity? But, it turns out, it is.
Imagine the joy of a young child who discovers that they can use their own powers to create something that was never in the world before. Imagine that you never lost that wonder and joy in your own power to shape the world.