The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
– Carl Sagan in Cosmos.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=26LYjMww0GY
Woodstock Joni Mitchell
“We are stardust, billion year old carbon”

I feel that. But as role model Don Henley once said also, “don’t look back, you can never go back.”
What follows is perhaps the most 90s performance ever: https://youtu.be/kNBQU3sFyu8

David Henley was struggling to come to terms with a lost fling. I’m struggling to come to terms with the devil’s bargain. Hensley wanted to get his girl back, I want to lose the smog. I dream of the bombers turning into butterflies.
We can be cogs in something turning. We are stardust. We are golden.
Beautiful.
In the immortal words of Robin Pecknold,
And I don’t, I don’t know who to believe
I’ll get back to you someday soon, you will see