“Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.” - Gore Vidal •• Looking at star dust and absorbing the breadth of the galaxy in the silent, pitch black night of Death Valley. . . . . . .