The Canon
“Need a quick infusion of humility? Climb to a scenic overlook in the mountain range of your choice and gaze out over the vast cashmere accordion of earthscape, the repeating pleats swelling and dipping silently into the far horizon without even deigning to disdain you. Or try the star-spangled bowl of a desert sky at night and consider that, as teeming as the proscenium above may seem to your naked gape, you are seeing only about 2,500 of the 300 billion stars in our Milky Way—and that there ar...e maybe 100 billion other star-studded galaxies in our universe besides, beyond your unaided view. A visit to a cemetery also does the trick: no, not one of those poignant churchyards tucked beside a James Renwick, Jr., cathedral, where the gravestones are few, slate, and safely antique; but a place like the Montefiore Cemetery complex in Queens, in which my grandmother, two of her siblings, and maybe another 150,000 of the recently deceased are buried, and which sprawls for several hundred acres just off the Long Island Expressway.MoreLess
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