Creatures of the Wind

We think of ourselves as land animals, but in truth the air is our element.  We live on the seabed of a gaseous ocean, and just because the air we inhabit is invisible to us that does not mean it does not exist.  What is invisible to us is so often what is most important.  While writing this book I have come to think of the air as something reassuringly connective.  Something that links me to you, as it does you to everyone you know.  We are all submerged in it and drawing upon it together.  ...