When I saw the UFO...

I thought of what it means to be human

Whitney McKnight

Oct 2, 2022

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woman in blue denim jacket sitting on brown dirt during daytime — Photo by Nicholas Bartos .

Greetings,

Not for the first time, I saw a UFO this week.

What was novel about my experience was 1) I saw it during the day and 2) I wasn’t alarmed by it so much as delighted, which is to say, I’ve come to think that it’s not abnormal to view our race and planet as a blip in a larger context, rather than as the highest of the highs.

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