Welcome. I am the author of Universal Time, a sci-fi urban comedy; Beaufort 1849,an historical novel set in antebellum South Carolina; and Pearl City Control Theory, a comedy of manners set in present-day San Francisco.
1) It's beautiful.
2) It gave us life.
3) It gives us life.
4) It's the only one we have.
5) In its own silent, majestic, unfathomable way it loves us. I don't know why. It just does.