i am in awe. this post is so good for my soul. i have been wrestling with the fears of supposed immortality and whether anything i do matters and this is so affirming. a good friend, peggie arvidson, sent me the link to your blog post and i am so glad she did. i write mostly because i wish to express and work out, work through what i am seeing, feeling, sensing and processing. if it resonates with others, that is a fringe benefit. but to be caught up in this endless loop of "relevance" (and on what / whose scale) is surely folly and i am grateful you've articulated it so eloquently. this post has released me from that loop, at least, as you say, for the time being. thank you. -molly