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Pale Blue Southwest

“… how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross to find our way.”

Your Friday moment of Zen, timelapse images of the American Southwest set to Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”. There’s no bad time to remember these words, our place on Earth, and our place in the universe.

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