Reckoning...........................

    "Say that we are a puff of warm breath in  a very cold universe.  By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting.  I tend toward the second view.  Scarcity is said to create value, after all.  Of course value is a meaningful concept only where there is relationship, someone to do the valuing."
-Marilynne Robinson, When I Was A Child I Read Books: Essays