The Comfort of Space…Outer Space

Why our place in the universe should bring us comfort.

Photo by Gaëtan Othenin-Girard on Unsplash

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut.

I remember taking out our small telescope to the backyard and pointing it up to the sky. I had a beginner’s astronomy guidebook that helped me understand what I was looking at because I usually had no idea.