Equidistant from the atoms and stars, we are expanding our exploring.*
Carl Sagan

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills, we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.**
Ursula K. Le Guin

First of all,
Our forming happens to us, and then
our forming is meant to happen through us;
If we are not mindful of this, then in subtle ways,
For the rest of our lives, the forming will
happen to us.

The conditions for imagining and shaping our lives have
never been more propitious, including the very real
possibility of inventing ourselves again
today.

*Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time;
**Ursula K. Le Guin’s Words Are My Matter.