“For me, this memory of the miraculous is a knowingness that life is big and meaningful and precious and that everything is awesomely, unfathomably, satiatingly connected. We share 60 percent of our DNA with a banana. The first living cell emerged four billion years ago, and its direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. We are literally breathing molecules right now inhaled by Buddha, Marie Curie and Beyoncé. We die and decompose and replace ourselves – every cell – every seven years. We are the Earth. We are space. Our fates are inseparable. You pull the cuticle on my little finger, and you can move my entire lumpen frame. The spiritualists teach us this, but we know it viscerally, too.”