Anonymous: When I read your tags about how much you love space and how it inspires you to write about it and make works dedicated to it, I get this tight feeling in my chest. It makes me happy to see someone so inspired by space and science and everything that's both factual and beautiful, and at the same time I ache for the times when I felt like that about space and science. I miss everything about thinking about those things and their magnitude, and more than anything I want you to never lose it.

I hope so, too. I can’t imagine losing it. I think I would lose a really important part of who I am if I ever let myself forget. Though any time I need reminding, I find something new, something I didn’t know about the universe before. Like 99942 Apophis or neutrino detectors or gravitational waves. I read about dark matter or I find out what astronauts thought the moon smelled like when they came back home. I listen to or read the work of scientists who understand the world better than I do and who look at it with awe and love. And I remember what it means to me and why I can’t ever let myself lose that. I hope some day you find it again.