Savoring life on Earth — while I keep my nuclear survival kit ready

Susan Gluss writes for San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 9, 2017

The political noise, partisan gabfests and air-wave chatter obscure the fact that we are simply human, an animal species whose time is limited. Out of all the possible combinations of egg and sperm, we are the lucky few born into a cosmos stretching across billions of light-years. We are but a speck in the universe. It’s a humbling thought.