
Originally published on www.sayerji.substack.com
How the most astonishing color in nature is built from darkness -- and why knowing exactly how only makes it more implausible.
God made a rainbow flesh in a bird.
I'll start with the obvious: we shouldn't exist. But we do. Nothingness is the more plausible outcome -- in nearly every case, it is easier for there to be nothing than something. And yet here is a universe instead: infinite, incomprehensible, inexhaustible. It is here. We can't leave it, not even in death.

(
(
(
(

(
(
(


