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Ben Brunner visits the ShoreRivers Youth Action Summit, where young people find their place in keeping our local waters healthy.Photo Credit: Tom McCall Photography

Do we live in a multiverse? Are there multiple versions of you? A rockstar? A monk? A being on a planet where it rains diamonds? What does this mean in the here and now?

In reality, we don’t know good news from bad. Could not getting what we want be the delivery system for receiving all that we do?

Trapped in the wrong Uber with a driver who does not speak the same language, we learn that we are all passengers.

There are words to which we have an aversion (fistula, pustule) and words that profoundly move us. “Godspeed” was a gift to strangers, a blessing and a benediction. How do you use it today?

In reliving the terror of childhood piano recitals, we ask: is it true the earth spins through space in the key of B Flat and that the sonification of the black hole in the center of the Perseus Galaxy sings 57 octaves below middle C?

The people who disappear from our lives are mysteries--books we borrowed and had to return unfinished. When they reappear in our lives from the time before now, what is the unique gift they bring?

Your life is a book in which the last chapter has not been written. Are we evolving towards a happy ending?

A ruptured appendix on an international flight brings a close call with death, or does it? What if the end is written into the beginning?

A dog bite in an English park brings about a confrontation and poses the question, does the universe require us to like everyone?