Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

The supernatural, sorta

When the universe is in your fingertips

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Jul 12, 2025
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“Dame Autumn has a mournful face” (1871), John Atkinson Grimshaw

I was maybe ten years old, standing in the yard, staring up at a tree branch waving in the wind, and suddenly I sensed I was both a small, individual thing in the universe and also somehow deeply connected to everything else.

I remember the experience being intensely physical. It felt like a…

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