Welcome to the Cognon podcast. This is Jeff Krasno. A many of you may receive my weekly

Sunday commusing article, where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the physiological

to the sociopolitical. And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these

articles and release it here as a bonus episode. So here are two existential questions for you.

Are we all separate individuals having a separate, solubistic experience of life, or are we all yoked by this shared phenomenon

of subjective relativity? Or both. Now, you could look through a microscope at the individual

cells in your hand, but leave the laboratory, and would your hand appear to be anything but a complete entity?

You can witness the vast space between dots of ink through a microscope, but hold the newspaper in front of your face,

and there is a complete image of a person of interest.

You can zoom in and you can zoom out, but all you'll find,

as Alan Watts memorably uttered, is fleas upon fleas upon fleas. This week's episode explores

relativity theory within the context of human transients.

It may be a bit maudlin in parts, but I've been exploring the Japanese aesthetic concept of Wabi-Sabi,

the delightful sadness that characterizes impermanence.

In any case, I hope you enjoy this week's commusing titled Sonder.

Sonder.

I climb the short step ladder and board the pint-sized prop plane from the airstrip. I've got no luggage to tow. And walking down the center aisle is always a bit like

tramping the catwalk, eyes darting and diverting. the gallery conducts its assessment.

It's mostly oldsters on this flight.

They can be quite judgy.

Expression focused, shoulders back, hips forward.

I stride confidently toward my seat and fold my frame into 13A.

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