How to be a person
prompts, notes, and consciousness
Yearn. There’s no use resisting it. It seems to be something old, inseparable from us, as if the universe began that way, with a kind of wanting. The word desire comes from the Latin desiderare — to await what the stars will bring. Maybe that’s why we look at the vast expanse of elsewhere with such longing. Not so much for what it might bring, but for w…